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>>eclipt+(OP)
I don't know a lot about this corner of the OS. Why are syscalls in libc, instead of something like a libsyscall? I could see why a language might want not to depend on what's at least notionally the C runtime. Is the fact that the kernel interface is in libc an accident of Unix being written in C, or is there something more fundamental there?

>>kstrau+ks
It's that libc is considered the stable interface for userland in general on openbsd.

>>monoca+Gs
In pretty much every OS of the unix tradition. libc is the API, with a stable ABI. Although Windows has a something pretty much identical in — I believe — ntdll. The name and API differ, but the intent is the same.

>>maskli+kt
Except notably Linux where the kernel ABI is the thing that’s stable.