Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?

[David Newall]

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.