Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751517AbVLFA0I (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 19:26:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751522AbVLFA0I (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 19:26:08 -0500 Received: from mail-red.bigfish.com ([216.148.222.61]:7218 "EHLO mail69-red-R.bigfish.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751517AbVLFA0H (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 19:26:07 -0500 X-BigFish: V Message-ID: <4394DA9D.1050207@am.sony.com> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:26:05 -0800 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Bird CC: Dave Airlie , David Woodhouse , arjan@infradead.org, andrew@walrond.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario References: <21d7e9970512051610n1244467am12adc8373c1a4473@mail.gmail.com> <4394DA1D.3090007@am.sony.com> In-Reply-To: <4394DA1D.3090007@am.sony.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 21 Tim Bird wrote: > I meant "handled in the worst possible way by > the kernel developers". It *is* possible to define > stable APIs and have them used successfully. > > POSIX is not the greatest example, but it seems > to work OK. Oops. I should have said "the syscalls supporting POSIX" to refer to the kernel binary API for applications. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics ============================= - 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/