Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What, are you kidding me? ;)
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/173209/
>
> "Stable: Interfaces classified as stable will not break 'for at least
> two years', and probably quite a bit longer. The Linux system call
> interface is classified in this way"
This is unfortunately not true.
Linux people in most cases don't understand that additional features
may break old interfaces in case they are not planned cleanly.
Example: introducing the new fine grained privileges interface of the
Linux kernel did modify the behavior and side effects of programs that
are not using fine grained privileges.
I suspect that this is a result of the fact that people not always know
_what_ an interface is...
Jörg
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