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Systemd catches up with bind events

Systemd catches up with bind events

[Kernel] Posted Nov 13, 2020 19:37 UTC (Fri) by corbet

The kernel project has a strong focus on not breaking user-space applications; if something works with a given kernel release, it should continue to work with subsequent releases. So it may be discouraging to read the lengthy exposition on an apparent user-space API break in the announcement for the systemd 247-rc2 release. Changes to udev configuration files will be needed to keep systems working, but the systemd project claims that it "is not [the] fault of systemd or udev, but caused by an incompatible kernel change that happened back in Linux 4.12". It seems like an appropriate time to look at what happened, how administrators need to respond, and whether anything can be done to avoid this kind of thing from happening again.

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