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Re:Linux Syscall Support by yencabulator on Thursday November 07, 2024 @02:12PM (#42079824)
nolibc seems kinda neglected, or like a minimal subset of what's actually useful. There's no pread/pwrite etc, only read/write, forcing you to use lseek and ruining concurrent use.
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Re:Linux Syscall Support by pantalaimon on Thursday November 07, 2024 @03:15PM (#42080480)
Wasn’t that originally just for integration tests where you wanted to boot a minimal image that just runs your kernel CI test?
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Re:Linux Syscall Support by t-8ch on Friday November 08, 2024 @02:06PM (#42089577)
It doesn't strive to be a complete implementation.

If users send patches support for them, new syscalls can be added. Or downstream users can keep those definitions in their own program. More complex features like threads are out of scope.

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers)

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Re:Linux Syscall Support by yencabulator on Friday November 08, 2024 @02:10PM (#42089612)
Sure, I'm more saying, because nolibc is so minimal, that still leaves room for things like this Chromium library.
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