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Love ambitious projects like this! I wonder why the Unix standard doesn't start dropping old syscalls and standards? Does it have to be strictly backwards comp

by maherbeg 11mo ago

Love ambitious projects like this! I wonder why the Unix standard doesn't start dropping old syscalls and standards? Does it have to be strictly backwards compatible?

jovial_cavalier 11mo ago
Even if the standard dropped them, Linux would likely retain them. https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE