Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

[Franco \"Sensei\"]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> this is a joke right? If you really think this you have no idea what ABI
> stability means and how extremely hard it is to even sort of remotely
> approach it.

I know it's really hard, the only way of possibly having ABI is plannig 
things really carefully about every single thing, so knowing every 
single piece... It's freakin' hard.

> Trust me. It's *extremely* hard to impossible. Several security fixes
> can only be fixed this way. And it's REALLY fragile even if for other
> fixes. And I am very glad that the linux kernel people in general decide
> to not go for abi stability, the hacks that would be needed would be so
> obscene and the gains very very minimal. (it's open source, you have the
> source after all!)

The gains are simply a rough reuse of older modules! Just joking...

I was simply wondering how guys like beos/haiku (it's a microkernel... i 
know... don't even think about starting a flame) could get ABI/API... I 
mean, if it's true that they have... I don't think it's because of c++ 
instead of plain c...

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