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As the saying goes, viruses on Linux are hard to get right because you need to make assumptions about API/ABIs The Linux system call interface is stable. Or if
by danieldk 6y ago
As the saying goes, viruses on Linux are hard to get right because you need to make assumptions about API/ABIs
The Linux system call interface is stable. Or if you want to go up one level of abstraction, glibc has great backwards compatibility (using versioned symbols).
GNU/Linux viruses are fairly uncommon, because (virtually) no one uses Linux on the desktop. So, it is much harder to spread.
(Disclaimer: not a bashing attempt, I use Linux on the desktop.)
- superkuh 6y ago>glibc has great backwards compatibility (using versioned symbols). As long as the virus or other software dev can restrain themselves from using the latest added features to glibc and c++??. Usually they can't so compiling something written with today's libs on a distro from 5 years is infeasible.
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