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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by dom0 on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:03AM (#15166777)
Doesn't matter, the stable interface in Linux is the syscalls, not the libc. Same goes for WSL.
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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by pjmlp on Monday September 04, 2017 @05:49AM (#15166974)
Syscalls are not POSIX APIs.
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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by dom0 on Monday September 04, 2017 @06:43AM (#15167204)
POSIX and Linux are generally believed to be different entities.
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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by pjmlp on Monday September 04, 2017 @06:52AM (#15167243)
Which is why I keep stressing POSIX.
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