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A comment on C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof.

Re:C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by pmoriarty on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:50PM (#18447582)
How did Plan 9 and Inferno handle this?
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Re:C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by sebcat on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:07AM (#18448124)
Similar to the BSDs: by providing wrappers for syscalls in their own libc.

Plan 9 has very few syscalls compared to Linux and the BSDs.

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Re:C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by 4ad on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:23AM (#18448845)
In Plan 9 all the state is in the kernel, so it doesn't have this problem.

Inferno doesn't have system calls.

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