Re: Unix is dead

From	Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Unix is dead
Date	2023-03-01 09:07 +0000
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On Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:02:40 +0000, Ian McCall wrote:

> On 28 Feb 2023, Dan Cross wrote (in article
> <ttlbtg$iql$1@reader2.panix.com>):
> 
>> In article<0001HW.29ADE6BC01D1602C70000FCBD38F@news.individual.net>,
>> Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org>  wrote:
>> > Do they have a stable ABI yet? When I was coding it, they didn't and
>> > touted that as an -advantage-. It wasn't of course, dreadful idea and
>> > the reason drivers kept needed recompiling all the time. Reminded me
>> > of the expunged-from-history page the MySQL site used to have
>> > explaining that foreign keys were bad "because it makes application
>> > programming hard".
>>
>> I think you mean stable internal interfaces, not ABI.
>> One of the Linux invariants is, "never break userspace!"
>> which implies a stable system call interface.
>>
>> Of course, they change the format of files under /sys and stuff, but
>> hey.
> 
> Definitely meant ABI. It’s the binary bit that’s key - it’s why people
> had to recompile drivers all the time which didn’t happen with other
> OSs.

For quite a while, that only has to be done with a new major version.

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  Re: Unix is dead Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2023-01-17 20:13 +0000
    Re: Unix is dead Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-01-17 21:39 +0100
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        Re: Unix is dead Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-01-18 22:12 -0700
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      Re: Unix is dead Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2023-02-16 10:21 -0700
      Re: Unix is dead kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-02-22 12:55 +0000
        Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-02-23 09:23 +0000
          Re: Unix is dead Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2023-02-23 20:53 +0000
            Re: Unix is dead Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-02-23 21:43 +0000
              Re: Unix is dead Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2023-02-24 00:06 +0000
            Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-02-25 16:08 +0000
              Re: Unix is dead Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2023-02-26 03:51 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2023-02-26 14:37 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2023-02-26 14:09 -0400
                Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-02-26 19:07 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-02-26 19:12 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-02-28 02:54 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-02-28 07:37 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2023-02-28 16:59 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-03-01 09:02 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2023-03-01 09:07 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-03-01 12:11 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2023-03-01 15:30 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2023-03-01 15:01 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-03-01 16:58 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2023-03-01 22:09 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-02 08:06 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2023-03-02 14:03 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-02 14:49 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2023-03-02 14:52 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2023-02-27 14:04 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2023-02-27 05:26 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-02-28 02:51 +0000
              Re: Unix is dead Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2023-02-27 13:30 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-02-27 23:24 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2023-02-27 22:41 -0500
                Re: Unix is dead kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-03-01 19:24 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2023-03-01 15:25 -0500
                Re: Unix is dead Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2023-02-28 13:32 +0000
                Re: Unix is dead Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2023-02-28 13:43 +0000

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