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At what point does "you made a willfully wrong program" override "we don't break userland"? Normally I would expect something like "we don't break documented an
by rocqua 5y ago
At what point does "you made a willfully wrong program" override "we don't break userland"? Normally I would expect something like "we don't break documented and intended behavior we told userland to expect". It makes sense that Linux tries for a bit more than that, but if you do it too much you get almost instant ossification, which is bad.
- caf 5y agoThose programs weren't "willfully wrong". That status quo is that whatever you wrote would be potentially mixed into the pool, but not counted as adding any kind of unpredictability unless the ioctl() was used to specifically indicate this.