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Re: Principles for syscall wrappers, again


Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> writes:

> Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear; my point was just that inventing a new
> API has lots of requirements that might not be apparent at first, and
> that could easily be overlooked, whereas using the existing API is
> guaranteed not to be a regression.

Stopping development is guaranteed to not causing regressions.

Andreas.

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