Anatomy of a system call, part 1

Posted Jul 11, 2014 22:12 UTC (Fri) by geuder (subscriber, #62854)
In reply to: Anatomy of a system call, part 1 by alonz
Parent article: Anatomy of a system call, part 1

> Originally (in the days of Linux 1.x / 2.0) Linux attempted to be binary compatible to existing Unices on common hardware

That sounds like a reasonable explanation. Besides that back in those days what Unices were running on x86_64 and ARM? And these 2 differ. Yeah well, maybe the dependencies are not direct, but somehow indirect over other platforms?

Anatomy of a system call, part 1

Posted Jul 11, 2014 22:22 UTC (Fri) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link]

As I recall, linux binaries for alpha would run under Digital Unix on alpha.