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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 Annatar on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:33AM (#18448213)
This is exactly why BSD and illumos based operating systems ship libc, the kernel and userland (/usr) as one coherent whole. Perhaps now, reading the LWN article, people who are comfortable with GNU/Linux will start to realize it's high time to outgrow it and move on to one of the BSD or illumos based systems. The longer you wait, the harder the transition will be and besides, it's good to go out of one's comfort zone.
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Re:C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by majewsky on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @08:56AM (#18449835)
Sure, I'll just write up a proposal for my employer to move multiple tens of thousands of Linux servers, VMs and containers over to BSD. I have a good feeling about this. /s
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Re:C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by Annatar on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:05AM (#18492284)
Here is something to consider: how did your employer get to tens of thousands of Linux servers from whatever they were running on before?

And: do you really want to spend the rest of your professional career wrangling with a shoddy product, or do you want to actally do professional, cutting edge IT?

I can't write for you, but I did not graduate computer science at the top of my class so that I could spend the next several decades working with / on the shittiest, amateur knock-off copy of UNIX when I could run the real thing for free & cheap. That's not why I studied at a university and got a degree for. How about you, what's it gonna be, shitty Linux for the next 20-30 years or the real computer science with SmartOS or FreeBSD?

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Re:C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by rkeene2 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:52PM (#18451941)
This is the whole point of a Linux distribution -- it takes the disparate parts and makes them into one coherent whole.
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Re:C library system-call wrappers, or the lack thereof by Annatar on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:08AM (#18492290)
But it's not coherent, far from it: it is often broken by various parties involved because there is no architecture and there are heterogenous interests at play. Compared to a FreeBSD or a SmartOS system, architecturally, it barely works, and it's rickety and shoddy.
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