More breaking of userspace

Posted May 18, 2024 19:51 UTC (Sat) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: More breaking of userspace by roc
Parent article: White paper: Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability

This is also a fantastic example of Hyrum's law:

> With a sufficient number of users of an API,
> it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
> all observable behaviors of your system
> will be depended on by somebody.

From https://www.hyrumslaw.com

More breaking of userspace

Posted May 19, 2024 4:43 UTC (Sun) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) [Link]

I didn't know this one and I totally agree.