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ABI stability documentationABI stability documentationPosted Mar 7, 2006 9:24 UTC (Tue) by addw (guest, #1771)Parent article: ABI stability documentation
It might be useful to define HOW an interface could change but still work with older applications.
Eg: /proc/self/stat - new numbers are to be added to the end of the line.
This might seem natural, but for this to work applications need to be aware that this might happen -- ie ignore anything beyond what they expect.
This strategy will not always work, but it might help prolong the life of some interfaces, ie not break old code.
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