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by 1718627440 241 days ago
Glibc is half of GNU/Linux. You can of course use another libc, but it will be a different OS.
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Yeah, even library loading relies on glibc, so we can't really escape glibc on GNU/Linux.
I don't really know why people expect to be able to bypass the OS and not have problems. It seems to come from people who think a "Linux OS" only consists of the Linux kernel.
I wonder if anyone implemented loading shared libraries without glibc? It shouldn't be that hard, just need to implement ELF parser and glibc-compatible relocation mechanism.
I don't think nobody has done, that. It is just that vendoring your own OS comes with a lot of work.