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Re:C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by int_19h on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:24AM (#18448170)
They need to be public and stable in order to be a usable userspace API for anything other than libc. I don't think the latter requirement is satisfied:

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/02118ad0a0cacb00c1d834b3...

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Re:C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by masklinn on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:05AM (#18449524)
Nope, in fact it's so absolutely not stable (or supported) that libSystem can't be statically linked to.
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