[pjmlp]

In theory yes.

Android doesn't expose a proper Linux to userspace and Google has been clapping down what we are allowed to do with the NDK since Android 7.0 (edit: corrected, only started in 7.0).

So playing "what if", you can replace Linux with something else that is compatible the NDK APIs and no one would notice, other than the OEMs.

[throwaway613834]

> Android doesn't expose a proper Linux to userspace and Google has been clapping down what we are allowed to do with the NDK since Android 6.0.

Would you have a link to more details/reading on this? I wasn't aware.

[pjmlp]

Here are the official NDK APIs.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html

Here are the documentation entries related to clamping down unauthorized use of other on-device libraries or Linux Syscalls.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/android-ch...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/improving-...

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/07/seccomp-fi...

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-...

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/android-8....

Small correction, it is actually Android 7.0, not 6.0

[throwaway613834]

Great, thanks!

[exikyut]

Ah. So it is a direct case of Linux>Fuschia, then.

Makes sense. That way there isn't a massive stockpile of old useless Android devices when the "new Google OS" comes out.