Anatomy of a system call, part 1
Anatomy of a system call, part 1
Posted Jul 11, 2014 22:12 UTC (Fri) by geuder (subscriber, #62854)In reply to: Anatomy of a system call, part 1 by alonz
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> Originally (in the days of Linux 1.x / 2.0) Linux attempted to be binary compatible to existing Unices on common hardware
That sounds like a reasonable explanation. Besides that back in those days what Unices were running on x86_64 and ARM? And these 2 differ. Yeah well, maybe the dependencies are not direct, but somehow indirect over other platforms?