Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?

Szabolcs Nagy
2018-11-23T15:23:37Z

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.