Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?

[David Newall <glibc at davidnewall dot com>]

On 24/11/18 1:53 am, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 23/11/18 14:11, David Newall wrote:
> > On 24/11/18 12:04 am, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > But socketcall does not exist on all architectures.  Neither does
> > > getpid, it's called getxpid on some architectures.
> > > ...
> > > I think it would be a poor approach to expose application developers to
> > > these portability issues.  We need to abstract over these differences at
> > > a certain layer, and applications are too late.
> > Interesting.  I think the opposite.  I think exposing the OS's interfaces is exactly what a c-library should do.  It might also provide
> > alternative interfaces that work consistently across different platforms, but in addition to, not instead of the OS interface.
> you don't understand the point of the c language if you think so.

I understand the point of C, thank you very much, and we're talking 
about the C library, not the language.  I don't understand the point of 
your rudeness.