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}}</ref> It is composed out of the System Call Interface of the Linux kernel and the subroutines in the [[GNU C Library]] (glibc). The focus of the development of the Linux API has been to provide the ''usable features'' of the specifications defined in [[POSIX]] in a way which is reasonably compatible, robust and performant, and to provide additional useful features not defined in POSIX, just as the kernel&ndash; user space APIs of other systems implementing the POSIX API also provide additional features not defined in POSIX.

The Linux API, by choice, has been kept stable over the decades andthrough nevera breaks;{{Clarify|reason=Doesn'tpolicy itof meannot backwardintroducing compatibility?breaking It worth to rewrite this part.|date=March 2019}}changes; this stability guarantees the portability of [[source code]].<ref>{{cite web

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