[elihu]

Some of those actually sound like nice improvements. I think the Unix-style API is in need of a bit of modernization, and it's nice to see someone trying some minor adjustments.

If users need a plain Linux-compatible API, then presumably someone will build a library to handle that. No need to make the raw system call API exactly the same as Linux just for historical compatibility reasons, especially when the opportunity presents itself to clean things up a little.

(I could rant at considerable length about what I would change if I were creating a system-call interface from scratch.)