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LibrariesLibrariesPosted Sep 4, 2007 13:49 UTC (Tue) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)In reply to: Libraries by nix Parent article: LinuxConf.eu: Documentation and user-space API design
Anything can be done wrong :) (Note that I have never programmed Alsa, so I can't comment there.) However, glibc essentially does the same, with the difference that at least on Linux the underlying interfaces are guaranteed. And unlike Alsa the interfaces and the library are maintained by different people, which might not be such a bad thing.
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Libraries Posted Sep 4, 2007 14:56 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] glibc provides an interface between kernel syscalls and userspace, yes, but interfaces don't appear in glibc until the kernel syscall ssemantics have been nailed in stone, and glibc then maintains those semantics forevermore, using compatibility code to ensure that if necessary (see e.g. the behaviour of nice()).
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