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Re:Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea by bartwe on Monday February 04, 2013 @05:49AM (#5163445)
No this is actually very different. Linus doesn't want breaking API changes to documented behavior, in the Raymond Chen case its not breaking applications that misbehave or abuse undocumented behavior.
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Re:Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea by derleth on Monday February 04, 2013 @02:00PM (#5166216)
> Linus doesn't want breaking API changes to documented behavior

Even aside from the fact this is wrong:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725

The point I was making was that Linux didn't expose the same kind of deep, undocumented behavior because, as I said, it always had the ability to hide its inner workings.

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