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Reading it fully and it seems to line up with Torvalds attitudes towards things like userspace facing API stability. Standards are standards, reality is realit
by digi_owl 8y ago
Reading it fully and it seems to line up with Torvalds attitudes towards things like userspace facing API stability.
Standards are standards, reality is reality, and when the two conflict the only way to maintain long term sanity is for the standard to be amended to fit reality.
The alternative is seen up and down userspace, where we have piles upon piles of workarounds, and whatsnot, to deal with APIs that change and break between releases because someone suddenly decided to re-read a standard spec like the devil reads the bible.