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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink53•1 year agoAndroid doesn’t use glibc, but Bionic, a C standard library developed by Google. So I don’t think this vulnerability affects Android.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•1 year agoWhat the heck. I thought, they were using musl. Certainly seems like this has rather similar goals to musl…
minus-squareAggressivelyPassivelinkfedilink17•1 year agoThat’s no reason for Google not to reinvent the wheel… They did the same with dalvik and ART now. JVMs, but more googlier!
Android doesn’t use glibc, but Bionic, a C standard library developed by Google. So I don’t think this vulnerability affects Android.
What the heck. I thought, they were using musl.
Certainly seems like this has rather similar goals to musl…
That’s no reason for Google not to reinvent the wheel…
They did the same with dalvik and ART now. JVMs, but more googlier!
And Quic, and Pony express, and GFS…