LCA: The ways of Wayland

Posted Feb 14, 2013 9:27 UTC (Thu) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)
In reply to: LCA: The ways of Wayland by khim
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

> 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.)