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Re:The sad case of Unreal Engine 1 on Mesa and Linux in 2020 by skyde on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:46AM (#23269009)
did the linux kernel system call changes or is it only a problem with libc?
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Re:The sad case of Unreal Engine 1 on Mesa and Linux in 2020 by kelnos on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:08AM (#23269121)
The system calls should be fine; Linux only tends to kill system calls if there are security issues that can't be fixed in a compatible way.
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Re:The sad case of Unreal Engine 1 on Mesa and Linux in 2020 by moonchild on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:40AM (#23269279)
Linux has a hard policy that the kernel should never break userspace.

Sadly, userspace provides no such guarantees.

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Re:The sad case of Unreal Engine 1 on Mesa and Linux in 2020 by jamiesonbecker on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:23PM (#23273764)
libc and sdl
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