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Linux kernel interfaces

The Linux kernel provides multiple interfaces to user-space and kernel-mode code. The interfaces can be classified as either application programming interface (API) or application binary interface (ABI), and they can be classified as either kernel–user space or kernel-internal.

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Linux API

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Linux kernel interfaces

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related to Further libraries · 5
Linux kernel interfaces → Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, APIs, Direct Rendering Manager, Linux, The

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Lennart Poettering openly advocate to prefer the Linux API over the POSIX APIinstance ofPeople0.80text
where this offers advantages.At FOSDEM 2016instance ofPeople0.80text
Michael Kerrisk explained some of the perceived issues with the Linux kernel's user-space APIinstance ofPeople0.80text
describing that it contains multiple design errors by being non-extensibleinstance ofPeople0.80text
unmaintainableinstance ofPeople0.80text
overly complexinstance ofPeople0.80text
of limited purposeinstance ofPeople0.80text
in violation of standardsinstance ofPeople0.80text
and inconsistentinstance ofPeople0.80text
Linux kernel interfacesrelated to Further librariesDirect Rendering Manager0.60section
Linux kernel interfacesrelated to Further librariesThe0.60section
Linux kernel interfacesrelated to Further librariesAPIs0.60section

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