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Re: support for calling Linux syscalls directly
Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:
> 2. Library creep is bad. We live in an age where "ldd" outputting 30+
> lines for trivial command line tools and hundreds of lines for large
> gui applications is the norm.
libinux should be static-only. It doesn't make sense to make it shared
(the syscall wrappers are very thin).
Andreas.
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