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On many POSIX compliant systems the stable interface to the system is libc, with syscalls being unstable and changing between releases. Linux itself does not p
by snuxoll 6y ago
On many POSIX compliant systems the stable interface to the system is libc, with syscalls being unstable and changing between releases.
Linux itself does not provide a libc or other similar system library implementation (even NT has ntdll as the stable syscall layer), and it’s the syscall numbers and parameters themselves that are the stable interface.