alt Hacker News> See also Linux's nolibc headers
Kind of an understatement. The existence of an official interface obsoletes 3rd party projects like the one posted.
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yencabulator • 11/07/2024
nolibc seems very minimal. For example, no pread/pwrite just read/write, forcing you to lseek and ruining concurrent use.
almostgotcaught • 11/07/2024
Ya totally - those wacky people at chrome must've just never heard of those headers /s
What you don't understand, because you don't work on Chrome, or Chrome sized projects, is that generic, lowest common denominator implementations cannot be optimal for all use-cases and at scale (Chrome-sized project) those inefficiencies matter. That's why this exists, that's why folly exists, that's why abseil exists, that's why no not everyone can just use boost, etc etc etc
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Might be a license thing? The Linux headers are probably GPL like the rest of Linux.