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The Linux ABI is actually quite small and quite well-defined. Perhaps the most so out of all common kernel interfaces today.



It is most certainly not small.

Besides the system calls, the ioctls, and the fcntls, including all the various driver ioctls, there's also /proc. /proc is quite large an interface.


It is, but you can get quite far with emulating only parts of it.


Yes, but not enough to make a business of it.




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