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OpenBSD’s position is far from unique. It’s shared with MacOS (and iOS).


And windows.

And that's just the platforms which technically enforce it. Linux is essentially the only platform which actually supports raw syscalls, in the sense that it's considered a normal system API.


And Windows, in a sense: not that libc is the interface, but that the assembly-level API is not the interface.


And almost every other OS still in use today, what Linux does is reminiscent from OSes like CP/M and MS-DOS.


And seL4.




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