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That is true, but it is also true that it is very unlikely for a hack to make a single application run will be added to the Kernel in the first place.
by estebank 14y ago
That is true, but it is also true that it is very unlikely for a hack to make a single application run will be added to the Kernel in the first place.
- makomk 14y agoDunno - I think there was a fairly lovely hack a while back to deal with the fact that the autofs ABI for 32-bit applications on 64-bit kernels wasn't compatible with the ABI for 32-bit applications on 32-bit kernels, and this was breaking stuff. Someone inserted a hack to fix this, which then broke another application which had its own hack to work around the kernel bug. So Linus had to add a hack to unbreak this other application's hack to work around a kernel bug that no longer existed: http://lwn.net/Articles/494993/ http://lwn.net/Articles/494993/