Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux

Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by pjmlp on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:15AM (#28498995)

Exactly, that is why applications that don't want to break with each OS update don't touch those APIs, making them irrelevant for application developers.

Also, contrary to Windows, since Android 7, applications that link to undocumented APIs get terminated as security measure.

Ask the termux guys how much fun they are having by refusing to acknowledge the fact that they have to use JNI and not Linux syscalls for their stuff.

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by blibble on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:02PM (#28502828)

> Also, contrary to Windows, since Android 7, applications that link to undocumented APIs get terminated as security measure.

"undocumented" has nothing to do with it

there is a sandbox, syscalls are checked by seccomp and those not explicitly permitted will result in termination of the application

it doesn't care where the syscall comes from, be that libc, golang style, or calling svc #0 yourself

additionally: the kernel is open source... there are no "undocumented" syscalls

this also has nothing to do with the original point

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Re:Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux by pjmlp on Monday September 13, 2021 @05:37AM (#28509379)

Sure it has, because it doesn't matter if it is open source or not, if it is a stable API described on the NDK documentation it is not allowed.

Something that termux guys are having some issues to swallow, regarless of Linux being the kernel, it is not allowed to do what they want, wrapping Java APIs via JNI is the only allowed way.

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