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I believe the general philosophy (never break user space) is deeply ingrained into all long term kernel devs. There is a possibility that Linux splits into mul
by qznc 9y ago
I believe the general philosophy (never break user space) is deeply ingrained into all long term kernel devs.
There is a possibility that Linux splits into multiple variants (server, supercomputer, desktop, embedded, ...), but as long as the licences are compatible I see no problem.
- digi_owl 9y agoHardly. Just the other day there was a spat between a security guy and Torvalds, where the security guy wanted to push a patch set that would crash even the kernel if something in userspace made it do something "funny". And said security guy have a whole bunch of cheerleaders in userspace (quite a few stepped onto social media to defend the patch set and berate Torvalds for being a potty mouthed bully), and perhaps even a few in kernel space.
- gnufx 9y agoI've seen enough break in user space in an HPC context. Note that HPC communication needs to happen there.