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Android, forking, and control

Android, forking, and control

Posted Jun 7, 2011 0:02 UTC (Tue) by ikm (subscriber, #493)
Parent article: Android, forking, and control

> Given the structure of the system, it seems that rewriting the C library was entirely unnecessary; nobody above the framework makes any sort of direct use of it anyway.

The last part isn't true - the NDK allows direct use of the C library, and any application which does any sort of serious data processing needs it.


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