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I really wanted to ask this many times.

> Is it some kind of homage to UNIX

this!

I'd quite like this to be the case! I'm imagining some contract MS engineer with a deep love of UNIX snuck in a change to the core of Windows without anyone noticing.

I doubt it though!

The Windows network stack is built on BSD code.

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