# std: don't do BYOS at the POSIX API layer · gitcafe/zig

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Author: Andrew Kelley

Committer: Andrew Kelley

## Message

```
std: don't do BYOS at the POSIX API layer

This was a mistake from day one. This is the wrong abstraction layer to
do this in.

My alternate plan for this is to make all I/O operations require an IO
interface parameter, similar to how allocations require an Allocator
interface parameter today.

```

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