More breaking of userspace

Posted May 23, 2024 7:46 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
In reply to: More breaking of userspace by roc
Parent article: White paper: Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability

I would suggest the opposite. The only implementation I would never want to see is one treating a hint as a guarantee. If you guarantee the behavior specify it as a guarantee, don't make it implicit like that.