Hi. On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 08:33:37AM -0300, Marcelo Lacerda wrote: > I know that the kernel and libc are deeply integrated
On the contrary, libc merely states a minimal supported kernel version, and you're free to use more-or-less recent kernel with it. You'll miss all new system calls, but that's all that you should miss. > but I imagine that a > security update to it doesn't actually change anything to libc source code, > so why do the two of them always upgrade together? Today's stable kernel update brought a patched kernel and a 'perf' tool. That's it, no libc upgrade. Reco