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The Linux syscall ABI is (famously) stable; on x86* you can still call into 0x80 just fine. There might be new interfaces made available, but existing programs shouldn't break. Although, in C there could be value in abstracting over the per-platform differences like int/syscall. I've only ever done raw syscalls from assembly where portability was rather moot:)

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