Yes this. This really feels like a vast over-extension of the "don't break userland" axiom. It's obvious with only a little thought that many bugs in a kernel c

Yes this. This really feels like a vast over-extension of the "don't break userland" axiom. It's obvious with only a little thought that many bugs in a kernel can be accidentally relied on somehow, and many almost certainly have been and have still been fixed in the linux kernel anyways (maybe by accident). It seems like a Linus quote from one of his notorious angry emails turned into a meme that got out of hand and now people are taking it too seriously. And yeah, the posix quotes that have been presented paint a picture much more like "posix doesn't demand you not support null/empty argv or argc==0, but it would prefer you not" to me.