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Re:How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls by bigger_cheese on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:26PM (#11866779)
11 parameters may seem bloated but in some cases Unix syscalls weren't designed with enough parameters whcih caused a bunch of pain necessitating things like

dup->dup2->dup3 pipe->piep2 rename->renameat->renameat2

Best practice nowadays in linux is to allow overloading syscalls via a flags parameter.

see https://lwn.net/Articles/585415/

So modern linux syscalls may be bloated too.

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