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LCA: The ways of WaylandLCA: The ways of WaylandPosted Feb 14, 2013 9:21 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: LCA: The ways of Wayland by michaeljt Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland It's just not needed in Linux because it carefully kept it's ABI very narrow. Which means that implementations of old, obsolete and no-longer-useful interfaces comprises only tiny piece of kernel (most of these are transparently translated to new capabilities). Most programs still use open(2) and read(2) even today, you know!
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LCA: The ways of Wayland Posted Feb 14, 2013 9:27 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]
> Which means that implementations of old, obsolete and no-longer-useful interfaces comprises only tiny piece of kernel (most of these are transparently translated to new capabilities).
So in other words an in-kernel compatibility layer. (And indeed, I was just poking about in the fsnotify/inotify code last week after I and some users hit a bug in Ubuntu's kernel.)
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