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by kazinator 1760 days ago
This isn't any different from any current or historic Unix. The system interface has been a C library going back to early Unix.

The library and kernel interface are more separated in Linux systems than in prior Unixes, with user space C libs being totally separate projects.

Over a Linux kernel you can find glibc, ucLibc, musl, Android s Bionic (newlib derivative from BSD), ...