Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-05-19 at 23:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>What I find truly puzzling is that obviously intelligent people like
>>yourself still seem to think that ABIs remain fixed.
> 
> Because with a few deep system stuff exceptions they do, although they
> certainly extend. Rogue for 0.98.5 still runs on 2.4.21 (although you
> may have fun finding libc2.2.2)

That's my point, though: the ABI *as a whole* does not remain fixed,
even though it evolves according to rules, one of which is try to
maintain backwards compatibility.

The "copy-and-modify" mantra doesn't take that into account, nevermind
the GPL issues.

	-hpa