[email protected] writes:
> The Linux developers are quite opposed to that, for a variety of excellent
> reasons I won't bother enumerating. Linus has said he'll (grudgingly)
> allow it, but won't lift a finger to help. Linux development sailed
> away from the idea of a stable binary interface years ago, and isn't
> looking back.
Almost true. There is a stable binary interface to user space,
and work is done to maintain that interface.
I just thought I would mention it because too frequently people
get the policy on the in-kernel api and the ABI to user space
confused.
In general the user space ABI is only appended to.
Eric
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