Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267291AbUJNSzM (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:55:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267319AbUJNSwZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:52:25 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:31205 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267291AbUJNScX (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:32:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:32:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Robert Love cc: Jeff Garzik , "Timothy D. Witham" , Linux Kernel ML Subject: Re: Announcing Binary Compatibility/Testing In-Reply-To: <1097709855.5411.20.camel@localhost> Message-ID: References: <1097705813.6077.52.camel@wookie-zd7> <416DAEB7.4050108@pobox.com> <1097709855.5411.20.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 655 Lines: 24 On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Robert Love wrote: > > Any other incompatibility lies in libraries, but we have library > versioning. No we don't. Yes, we "have the technology". But it's not actually used for libc (which is most of the problematic stuff), so we do not actually have library versioning. Instead, glibc tries very hard to be binary compatible, and invariably fails occasionally. Oh, well. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/