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Re:Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API by trashb on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:18AM (#50337155)

  > 400 distinct syscalls is a very large number of syscalls 
Compared to what? It seems windows has 2000+ syscalls all combined (nt+win32). For just ntos there are 490.

https://github.com/hfiref0x/SyscallTables

https://github.com/j00ru/windows-syscalls

And does the number matter? Why can't it be 1000, 2000, 4000. In my opinion the interface is free to be defined as long as it is documented properly.

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