From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MAX_PID changes in 2.5.31
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:47:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208192247.g7JMlUM29487@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1029796863.942.1.camel@phantasy>
Robert Love writes:
> On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 18:36, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> > In other words, "yes, unless you happen not to use SysV IPC semaphores
> > or message queues in any of your binaries on your system". So you want
> > to break binary compatibility. Please don't. I don't want to downgrade
> > to glibc.
>
> So are you saying we can never deprecate interfaces, just so you can
> continue using libc5?
Having a stable ABI to user-space has been one of the strong points of
Linux, versus just about everything else out there. And I wouldn't be
using libc 5 if glibc wasn't growing exponentially with time (both in
terms of total bytes and in terms of number of shared libraries I have
to add to my link line).
> Seems saner to keep libc5 in sync with the kernel than vice versa..
It's not just me. There are people using libc 4.
Regards,
Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-19 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-19 19:55 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-19 20:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 22:31 ` Richard Gooch
2002-08-19 22:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 22:36 ` Richard Gooch
2002-08-19 22:41 ` Robert Love
2002-08-19 22:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 22:47 ` Richard Gooch [this message]
2002-08-19 23:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-20 13:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-19 22:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 22:42 ` Richard Gooch
2002-08-19 22:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 22:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-19 23:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-19 23:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-19 23:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-20 0:33 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-20 0:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-22 22:11 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-22 22:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-22 22:59 ` Jan Harkes
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