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As one of the cousin comments said, on Linux the syscall table is defined as stable and various POSIX(-like) C APIs (glibc for example) are built on top.
by alexchamberlain 6y ago
As one of the cousin comments said, on Linux the syscall table is defined as stable and various POSIX(-like) C APIs (glibc for example) are built on top.
- jmull 6y ago... thus glibc is one of the C interfaces to which the article refers! I guess I should just stop since you're making a distinction I just am not getting. I realize glibc doesn't == syscalls, but I don't see how that's relevant to the article.
- alexchamberlain 6y agoTo be really pedantic, the pure Linux OS doesn't provide the C interface - a layer on top does.