While Linux certainly reinvents the wheel in some cases and NIHism exists everywhere, the syscall interface of an operating system is not the place where one ca

While Linux certainly reinvents the wheel in some cases and NIHism exists everywhere, the syscall interface of an operating system is not the place where one can just lift BSD code and drop it in and expect it to work. This work needs to be done carefully in a Linux-specific way. The "NIH" approach is sort of a requirement.