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I’m guessing the OP meant “where glibc is really horrible”, since bsd libc is rather more abi stable, largely because that’s where FreeBSD provides compatibilit

by trws 4y ago

I’m guessing the OP meant “where glibc is really horrible”, since bsd libc is rather more abi stable, largely because that’s where FreeBSD provides compatibility instead of the syscall layer. This is not to say you can’t use an old libc and fix up the loader paths or use a container and make it work, but it’s a different set of challenges.

bonzini 4y ago
> bsd libc is rather more abi stable I am not sure about other BSDs, but at least OpenBSDs is all but abi-stable; when they wanted to introduce 64-bit time_t to fix Y2038, they just changed the typedef and declared a flag day.