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I'm a huge fan of the ideas behind this library. Using the stable ABI of "magic numbers" is brilliant. Would love to see this solution gain more usage!

• saagarjha 6y ago
  Sadly, the "magic numbers" are much less stable than you'd think.
  • jart 6y ago
    That's like saying the '9' in kill -9 might change someday. However it really does depend on which numbers. In the APE blog post I mention the importance on focusing on the subset of numbers that systems share in common. In other words, the really old ones. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/consts.sh https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/c...
    • saagarjha 6y ago
      Not quite–kill is part of POSIX, and platforms that expose a libc interface must keep signal numbers consistent for applications. Syscall numbers need not be stable if they are not exposed, as is true on pretty much every platform but Linux.