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Arguably yes, abandoning an architecture is breaking userspace. At least for those that are still using it.
by selfhoster11 5y ago
Arguably yes, abandoning an architecture is breaking userspace. At least for those that are still using it.
- djur 5y agoIt isn't breaking userspace under the definition intended by "we do not break userspace". In that thread, Linus was referring to a kernel change that changed the error returned from an ioctl, which caused a program not just to fail (as it might if it tried to use a feature not compiled into the kernel) but to break (by entering an infinite loop).