ABI backward-compatibility is the trick...
ABI backward-compatibility is the trick...
Posted Dec 3, 2010 19:43 UTC (Fri) by Spudd86 (guest, #51683)In reply to: ABI backward-compatibility is the trick... by madscientist
Parent article: The kernel and the C library as a single project
... not if they're linked against libc5 (OK that's slightly more than 10 years ago... but still, you can't run those binaries on a modern distro)
Also the kernel developers ARE aware of this.