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.
