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It's not a syscall, it's a C standard library function that may read files, talk to dbus, read env vars, etc. The problem is people quite understandably expect

It's not a syscall, it's a C standard library function that may read files, talk to dbus, read env vars, etc. The problem is people quite understandably expect its re-entrancy to mean more than it really means.

nvy 3y ago
Oh, that's my error. Shows you how much code I write that calls into libc, i.e. almost none.
- Macha 3y ago
  If you write anything other than Go or Zig on Linux, you're probably calling libc without realising.
  - nvy 3y ago
    Obviously. But I meant directly writing the code that calls into libc myself.