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On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:43:11PM -0800, Stephen Satchell wrote: > At 11:58 AM 11/5/01 -0800, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > >use of a version field. Rather than try to support all versions, use it to > >determine whether the two ends of the communication channel are > >compatible, and fail gracefully because of the incompatible version. Tell > >the user to update the app, or whatever. [snip] > And then there is the problem of who pays for my time to make the app > update. I don't charge people for updates as a rule -- that rule may have > to change for my Linux apps if this ill-thought-out idea goes into the > kernel. I expend enough effort trying to keep up with the crap coming out I hope you just don't mean the version number idea. Because I don't see reason for not, instead of adding a version number to every /proc file and breaknig everything, adding all them to a /proc/proc-version file which would still let clients make some sanity checks. -- ____/| Ragnar Højland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL | Brainbench MVP \ o.O| PGP94C4B2F0D27DE025BE2302C104B78C56 B72F0822 | for Unix Programming =(_)= "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for | (www.brainbench.com) U chaos and madness await thee at its end." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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