Comment by stevenhuang

That's all user space platform specifics, it has no relation to your previous statement where you said 'android is not linux'.

Someone can statically build a freestanding executable/so targetting arm64 linux (specifically the right android linux kernel version) and it will run fine on Android. The syscall interface, process model, file descriptors, signals, memory mapping, all of this is Linux, this is what people mean when they say Android is just Linux.