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The article states:

>"Unikernels on the other hand don’t have system calls. They only have function calls."

If my program is compiled against glibc functions which wrap actual system calls how does my program work when there is no userland?

Is there a compiler that compiles my program to a unikernel target? Can someone explain how this works?




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