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No this is actually very different. Linus doesn't want breaking API changes to documented behavior, in the Raymond Chen case its not breaking applications that
by bartwe 14y ago
No this is actually very different. Linus doesn't want breaking API changes to documented behavior, in the Raymond Chen case its not breaking applications that misbehave or abuse undocumented behavior.
- derleth 14y ago> Linus doesn't want breaking API changes to documented behavior Even aside from the fact this is wrong: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129 http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725 http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725 The point I was making was that Linux didn't expose the same kind of deep, undocumented behavior because, as I said, it always had the ability to hide its inner workings.