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		0xdeadbeefbabe on Oct 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So you want to build an embedded Linux system? > Because C doesn’t have good programming constructs for asynchronous calls or exceptions, code tends to contain either a lot of weird state machines or tons of nested branches. It’s horrible to debug problems that occur. Linux is in C though. So, what is really going on?

rcxdude on Oct 16, 2020 [–]

Linux uses a lot of kernel threads (as well as a lot of code which runs on application threads). It's pretty synchronous in style for the most part.

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