On Friday 02 February 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > It might be to late to fix this - we risk breaking userspace which worked > around it.
we'd be breaking userspace API, but not ABI ... and the largest consumers out there (glibc/uclibc) have not been accounting for this, so we wouldnt be breaking them that's how we noticed the issue in Gentoo ... all the epoll calls are automatically declared -ENOSYS stubs in glibc's libc.so is there some other large consumer i'm not thinking of ? > It would be safer to add the correct definitions while leaving the old ones > in place. in the end, either works for me ... i can see linux's pretty hard 'dont break userspace' policy coming into play here -mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
