Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
by Conan_Kudo on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:09AM
(#26002681)
The Linux kernel team does not preserve ABI in almost all scenarios, just only specifically with the syscall interface. Everything else is not stable.
The GNU C standard library has binary backwards compatibility going back 20 years. They take great pains to preserve that. Are you thinking of glib instead of glibc? The former is from GNOME, and the latter is not.
Re:I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit
by thu2111 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:04PM
(#26003523)
These days half of Linux is exported via filesystems, IOCTLs and other random pseudo-syscalls. Ignoring drivers, of course. The kernel isn't really that stable.
The GNU C standard library has binary backwards compatibility going back 20 years. They take great pains to preserve that. Are you thinking of glib instead of glibc? The former is from GNOME, and the latter is not.