Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:52:31 -0400 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: Header files and interfaces |
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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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