Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:56:47 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation |
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:27:52AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:23 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:39:29PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote: > > > Greg KH writes: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > + > > > > + stable/ > > > > + This directory documents the interfaces that have determined to > > > > + be stable. Userspace programs are free to use these interfaces > > > > + with no restrictions, and backward compatibility for them will > > > > + be guaranteed for at least 2 years. Most simple interfaces > > > > + (like syscalls) are expected to never change and always be > > > > + available. > > > > > > What about separating "stable" ("guaranteed for at least 2 years") and > > > "standard" (core unix interface is not going to change ever)? > > > > Why? Would that mean that the POSIX-like syscalls would only be in > > "standard"? What else would you think would be in that category? > > that sounds wrong. If you want posix behavior, use glibc. Not the kernel > directly. It's that simple. The kernel tends to follow posix mostly, to > allow glibc to do this job without too much hoops, but it's glibc that > provides the final posix API to the application. And it should be that > way.
Yes, sorry, that is much more correct.
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