Systemd catches up with bind events

Posted Nov 14, 2020 3:12 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Systemd catches up with bind events by koh
Parent article: Systemd catches up with bind events

> If someone was to create a userspace program relying on a particular syscall, flag, whatever, not being implemented - until it finally is - would that be a regression?

Absolutely. LWN even have article which explains how and why that case should be handled.

But there is also the rule if nobody notices, it's not broken.

Now… we have very weird corner-case: somebody have noticed… year after the change was made. That's… rather unusual, to say the least.