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cbmuser
on April 28, 2021
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Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kerne...
The kernel is regularly shedding off unmaintained code.
So the codebase is actually not growing as much as it could.
cedws
on April 28, 2021
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The code they're shedding off is drivers. They won't ever get rid of old syscalls because Linus refuses to break userspace, ever.
caf
on April 29, 2021
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Frequently the old syscall just ends up as a stub that calls into the new implementation though.
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So the codebase is actually not growing as much as it could.