On Friday 24 March 2006 5:46 pm, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> however. Since the kabi/*.h headers would not be kernel-version-
> specific, they could be copied to a system running an older kernel
> and reused there without problems.
Since when is the kernel ABI not kernel version specific? You can use an
older ABI on a newer kernel, but you can't use a newer ABI on an older
kernel.
> Even though some of the syscalls
> and ioctls referenced in the kabi headers might not be present on the
> running kernel, portable programs are expected to be able to sanely
> handle older kernels.
At the source level, maybe. At the binary level? Not really.
Rob
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