Are Linux syscalls safe in Android?

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

Hello,

Standard Linux binaries produced by the Free Pascal Compiler use
syscalls instead of libc routines to implement RTL functions, to avoid
depending in the libc.

I tested and this works flawlessly in Android, the same kernel
syscalls from Linux work fine and the application runs normally.

But some people claim that Google does not claim that Android is
compatible with Linux, so Google could delete / modify syscalls and
therefore break Free Pascal applications which relly on them.

Is that true? Or are the syscalls reliable like in Linux?

thanks,

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

[David Turner]

The Android team has not intention to delete or modify syscalls, that would be crazy.

On the other hand, there is no guarantee on the exact set of syscalls or config options supported by a given device kernel.

When it comes to simple runtime syscalls, these shouldn't be a problem, and would advise you to keep doing what you're doing.

Regards

 

thanks,

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho

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[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

Thanks for clarifying this =)

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