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SubjectRe: Header files and interfaces
Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> There's a difference between the occasional bug (especially in the
> development kernel) and consciously breaking an old interface, and then
> when people complain, say that you don't care. The kernel has in
> general been very careful not to gratutiously break backwards
> compatibility.

Yeah, but that's not what was said.

What he said was that

(a) he thought he had good reasons for doing so, but that
(b) it was a mistake.

Unfortunately, (a) almost completely overshadowed (b).

--
Raul

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