On 02/26/2010 03:23 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
I do think tools/X and tools/libc would make quite a bit of sense - this is one of the better design aspects of FreeBSD et al. It's a mistake that it's not being done.
I don't see what it would buy to have tools/libc. You cannot force users to update kernel-space and user-space in lockstep (Apple forced you to do that sometimes when I used Macs at work, and it was very very inconvenient), so it's not like libc would be able to always assume the latest system calls. There is (relatively) a lot of backwards-compatibility code in libc; it's ugly code, but you have to live with it.
Any case in which you need lockstep upgrades of kernel and libc for bisectability is a bug in libc, and I haven't seen it happen enough to be a problem.
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