[systemd-devel] Linux kernel API

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:54:26PM +0100, ScotXW wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/02/2013 12:15 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 12:05:23AM +0100, ScotXW wrote:
> >> On 11/01/2013 06:51 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 06:47:00PM +0100, ScotXW wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> systemd is written exclusively for the Linux kernel because this
> >>>> offers advantages over the POSIX API. To illustrate the difference
> >>>> between Linux kernel API and POSIX API I created a diagram, see [1].
> >>>
> >>> Linux doesn't implement all of the POSIX api in the kernel, other
> >>> portions of it are in other userspace pieces.
> >>
> >> Would you please name a couple beside the libc?
> >
> > Why, this is your research, not mine :)
> 
> This is //not// a recherche, I was looking for some fast answer from the 
> off the top of ones head. Besides the scheme, there is now an article [1].

The diagram on that article is still wrong, sorry.

The article is also wrong, POSIX is still being developed and maintained
and extended, thanks to a large effort by lots of Linux developers doing
the work.

I still fail to understand how _any_ of this pertains to this mailing
list...