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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411291458040.22796@ppc970.osdl.org> By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > If glibc wants to do something new, go wild. The kernel won't care. > > And that's really the fundamental issue. The kernel does not care what > user land does. The kernel exports functionality, the kernel does _not_ > ask user land to help. > > That _does_ make it a one-way street. Sorry. > And it SHOULD be a one-way street. A lot of the ugliness in the current stuff comes from the fact that the kernel tries to export libc4/5 internals, instead of the real kernel ABI. -hpa - 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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