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Given the unix philosophy of providing important functionality only in the c runtime library and having all software dynamically link against it, wouldn't the most crucial step in this be to replace glibc with an implementation that isn't written in C?



UNIX philosophy has nothing to do with dynamic linking, in fact during the first decade of its existence only static linking was available.




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