From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SYSCTL: Fix sysctl breakage on systems with older glibc
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:16:04 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912171315080.15740@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1iqc5zc4i.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> As for glibc. The usage in glibc before glibc 2.5 does not count as a
> user space application that cares. You can return any string or
> -ENOSYS and glibc works fine.
Annoying and pointless messages that flood your terminals etc is not
"fine".
Backwards compatibility is more than "technically it still works". It's
something almost sacred.
Linus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-17 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-16 11:28 Andi Kleen
2009-12-17 15:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-17 16:46 ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-17 18:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-17 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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