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Fixing broken userspace is NOT the kernel's job

Fixing broken userspace is NOT the kernel's job

Posted Apr 30, 2012 18:26 UTC (Mon) by vrfy (subscriber, #13362)
In reply to: Fixing broken userspace is NOT the kernel's job by pr1268
Parent article: Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI

Systemd just did not like to get any "shit" together in userspace:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-...

Adding runtime matches for architectures in userland tools to find out what to expect from a running kernel interface is just not acceptable these days, and people should stop doing that. We need to fix what's broken, and not paper over it.

It's surely not the kernel's job to fix userland tools, but it's even less the job of userspace to work around obviously non-working kernel interfaces, when they should be fixed instead.


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