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hiphopyo
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Doesn't Android borrow a lot of code from NetBSD and OpenBSD?
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duskwuff
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Not significantly. Some parts of Bionic (Android's libc equivalent) is based on BSD equivalents, but most of userland is Android-specific.
rhabarba
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Android has a few hundred unmodified OpenBSD files.
duskwuff
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A few hundred files is very little in a project the size of Android. :)
pjmlp
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> but most of userland is Android-specific.
Meaning Java, which makes POSIX irrelevant.
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