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Linus has the (imho: valid) expectation that kernel changes should not break userspace (for detailed explanation see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/235532 ht
by syntheticcdo 8y ago
Linus has the (imho: valid) expectation that kernel changes should not break userspace (for detailed explanation see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/235532 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/235532). Even if the version numbering is not an explicit API like say, file system drivers, the versioning of the kernel is an implicit guarantee that the kernel has made to userspace.