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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by moonchild on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:03AM (#26087367)
> pthread is a special case

How's that? It's a posix api among many others which is implemented on android.

How about fork[0], which is one of the more maligned posix apis (as far as I know, no one has any big problems with pthreads). Or errno[1]. Lots of ugly garbage in android...

0. https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/refs/head...

1. https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/refs/head...

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Re:SDL Moves to GitHub by pjmlp on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:03AM (#26088526)
So what?

APIs that aren't part of NDK stable API contract are not allowed, and since Android 7 Google has started to implement security measures to kill processes that try to use private APIs, one of the reasons why termux is no longer.

Good luck using your beloved POSIX APIs and not being killed in random Android devices.

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