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		floatboth on Feb 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit "Syscall interface" is what most people mean by "$SYSTEM's ABI"

thu2111 on Feb 2, 2021 [–]

These days half of Linux is exported via filesystems, IOCTLs and other random pseudo-syscalls. Ignoring drivers, of course. The kernel isn't really that stable.

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