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		jmull on Sept 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift System Is Now Open Source ... thus glibc is one of the C interfaces to which the article refers! I guess I should just stop since you're making a distinction I just am not getting. I realize glibc doesn't == syscalls, but I don't see how that's relevant to the article.

alexchamberlain on Sept 25, 2020 [–]

To be really pedantic, the pure Linux OS doesn't provide the C interface - a layer on top does.

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