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Fixing the unfixable autofs ABIFixing the unfixable autofs ABIPosted May 7, 2012 11:23 UTC (Mon) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)Parent article: Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI
Not that it would have helped immediately in this situation, but I wonder why kernel ABIs are not designed in a way that they can be easily be emulated in user space. Then when people decide that an ABI is old and broken it could be replaced with a better one in the kernel and optional user space emulation could be added for the old ABI and any remaining users. Which given the way Linux distributions are organised would mean that the emulation would go into a package which would become a dependency of the packages for those users.
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Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI Posted May 7, 2012 14:04 UTC (Mon) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
What you're describing is a library, just like the Standard C Library, or pthreads. Your hard drive is full of them.
Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI Posted May 7, 2012 14:24 UTC (Mon) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
I agree, shared libraries in user space tend to have that property.
Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI Posted May 10, 2012 12:41 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014) [Link]
It's simpler and faster to just do the "emulation" in the kernel and keep it there forever.
Fixing the unfixable autofs ABI Posted May 11, 2012 16:49 UTC (Fri) by amonnet (subscriber, #54852) [Link]
a solution which leads to the current problem ...
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