Messages in this thread |  | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 04:19:09 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Source code compatibility in Stable series???? |
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Rogier Wolff writes: > But it's always been said that source code compatiblity would be > maintained.
"when possible", we've made no such total souce level compat. guarentee. And more such changes are coming, for example the quota bugs can't be fixed without breaking source level compat. for the filesystems.
You may think and argue otherwise, but our ability to break source level compatibility is one of our strengths (see solaris rsh root owned socket bug of yesteryear for one example as to why).
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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