On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu <ara...@mgk.ro> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> or any POSIX-like OS for that matter
>
> On Solaris the syscall interface is a private, unstable interface
> (just like on Windows), and the only supported way to interact with
> the system is through the vendor-supplied libc. Go on Solaris always
> uses libc, it doesn't make system calls directly like on Linux.
>
> In fact macOS is just like Solaris here (except the syscall interface
> breaks even more often), but we just ignore it and hope for the best
> (which is a shame, because Go binaries for macOS will never be
> forward-compatible this way) .

Fixing that on macOS is https://golang.org/issue/17490 .

Ian

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