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On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:10:53 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> boringly babbled:
>If you are writing network software for Linux, how is it relevant to 
>learn about the sound API, or the more advanced filesystem API's ?  If 

You don't, but the subsystems don't exist in isolation, there's a lot of
overlap. Eg network sockets use a lot of the same API functions as files
(eg: read, write, fcntl, ioctl) so understanding may well help to understand
the other.

>you are writing a gui program with QT, why should you be interested in X 
>APIs or POSIX threading and file handling - you'll be using the QT 
>libraries and APIs for graphics, threading and file handling.

Not necessarily.

>I have not suggested, or even hinted, that all you need is "core C" - 
>what you need is the knowledge that is relevant to the task at hand, 
>regardless of the OS, language, or whatever.

Its certainly the impression you gave.