From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make AT_SYSINFO platform-independent
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:06:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E206B41.2090203@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030111185744.A5009@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Who is we? And why should I care who selected that number.
It's not about who selected the number, it's about who's responsible for
distributing binaries which use the currently used number.
> There is no
> glibc release yet and no stable kernel release yet with that number.
Of course there is. You better don't talk about thinks you don't know.
> Interfaces change during 2.5 (see the sys_security and largepage syscall
> removal) and that's okay. There was no nastiness involved in my
> suggestion.
You don't get it. I would never have distributed binaries with the
current code if it wouldn't have been requested along with the guarantee
that the current interface is stable and final.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-11 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-11 6:45 make AT_SYSINFO platform-independent David Mosberger
2003-01-11 11:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-11 18:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-01-11 18:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 19:06 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2003-01-11 19:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 19:24 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-01-11 19:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 19:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-11 19:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 19:36 ` David Mosberger
2003-01-12 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-11 23:47 ` Jeff Garzik
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