Never break userspace
Never break userspace
Posted Feb 16, 2024 20:07 UTC (Fri) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)In reply to: Never break userspace by mb
Parent article: A turning point for CVE numbers
Excellent, you have now demonstrated that my original post, claiming that there is no such thing as 'kernel never breaks userspace', was indeed correct, and thus 'just update to the latest' cannot be suggested as a solution to security issues since public interfaces will be broken left and right with no regard for backward compatibility. Congrats!
> If a change only breaks udev or systemd and nothing else, it might make sense to do it.
I beg to differ