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Adding to the other responder. Traditionally, in Unix libc is part of the OS. This situation is different in Linux but Linux is an outlier here, if we look at
by p2t2p 5y ago
Adding to the other responder.
Traditionally, in Unix libc is part of the OS. This situation is different in Linux but Linux is an outlier here, if we look at various BSDs they keep libc in the same tree as kernel.
- WJW 5y agoIf the outlier has >100x as much market share as the rest of the other unixes combined, is Linux really still the outlier?
- WastingMyTime89 5y agoHistorically speaking? Yes. C and Unix are considerably older than Linux after all.
- masklinn 5y agoYes. It explains why things work the way they do, and have since long before linux was a thing.
- nyrikki 5y agoRemember "Linux" is just the kernel, it is not an operating system itself. Alpine or Debian including libC is more equivalent to the BSDs including it.