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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.
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