C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof
C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof
Posted Nov 21, 2018 1:57 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566)In reply to: C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by tdz
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Good observation. It might be better for long-term health of the ecosystem to split the non-POSIX stuff off into a liblinux, like there's already a libbsd for functions like arc4random. It's not just about fixing Linux-specific dependencies but glibc-specific ones too; bionic and musl exist. Users of the library ought to have to make a conscious choice to write non-portable code.
Posted Nov 24, 2018 17:23 UTC (Sat)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof
This has been intermittently proposed but hasn't gone anywhere yet as far as I know. (The name of the library is nice: following on from libiberty, the proposal is to call this one 'libinux'. hence gcc -o foo foo.o bar.o ... -linux ... :)