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Re:Cosmopolitan v3.1 by stylepoints on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:02PM (#38342109)
If I am correct in my understanding of how it works, Linux versions should work on Android as well.
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Re:Cosmopolitan v3.1 by KRAKRISMOTT on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:58AM (#38343074)
Android is kind of a special child, it uses custom kernel modules like Binder (IPC framework) and Ashmem (Android's garbage collector/memory manager).
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Re:Cosmopolitan v3.1 by matheusmoreira on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:42AM (#38343507)
The Linux system calls used by cosmopolitan work fine on Android provided they aren't blocked by seccomp policy. Some of those blocks make sense, others not so much. Yesterday I discovered I could use all the stat variants but not statx.

I believe the features provided by standard C libraries are well covered by the set of allowed system calls.

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