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I Call ShennanigansI Call ShennanigansPosted May 1, 2008 17:14 UTC (Thu) by vmole (subscriber, #111)Parent article: Sun and corporate open source
Another very important technical point is that we want OpenSolaris to continue being binary compatible (ABI) with the previous Solaris revisions... What has that got to do with whether or not you support and encourage outside developers? That's just a limit on what a patch can do, just like Linus won't accept patches that break the system call interface.
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I Call Shennanigans Posted May 1, 2008 18:14 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] Actually it should mean any patch has to run through a large test suite to make sure it does not break ABI, API, or other tests.
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