Re: Interest in a Cosmopolitan build?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If I understand correctly, they found a way to make something that fits
  > all executable formats that major OSs support, plus they embed a zip
  > with binaries and dependencies (e.g. parts of /usr/ for Emacs), plus
  > they even convinced the POSIX stewards to loosen up the definition of
  > what's an executable. Plus a new libc...

Could you possibly explain concretely what "a new libc" means in
this context?  In what sense is it "new"?  In what ways is it
different from the existing libc that any POSIX system would have?

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