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		maherbeg 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Radiant Computer Love ambitious projects like this! I wonder why the Unix standard doesn't start dropping old syscalls and standards? Does it have to be strictly backwards compatible?

jovial_cavalier 5 months ago [–]

Even if the standard dropped them, Linux would likely retain them.

https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE

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