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		kstrauser on Oct 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD: Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel Thanks for that. So although the name is "libc", it's more like "lib-how-to-use-the-kernel", too?

masklinn on Oct 27, 2023 [–]

Yes, for historical reasons it bunches syscalls (section 2) and C library functions (section 3) into a single binary.

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