On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 14:20 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Tim. > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:07:47PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: > > I really want to understand why this is SO IMPORTANT that you have to > > break userspace compatibility? I mean, isn't Linux supposed to be the > > OS with the stable kernel interface? I've seen Linus rant time and > > time again about this - why is it OK now? > > What the hell are you talking about? Nobody is breaking userland > interface. A new version of interface is being phased in and the old > one will stay there for the foreseeable future. It will be phased out > eventually but that's gonna take a long time and it will have to be > something hardly noticeable. Of course new features will only be > available with the new interface and there will be efforts to nudge > people away from the old one but the existing interface will keep > working it does. I can understand some alarm. When I saw the below I started frothing at the face and howling at the moon, and I don't even use the things much. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-June/011521.html Hierarchy layout aside, that "private property" bit says that the folks who currently own and use the cgroups interface will lose direct access to it. I can imagine folks who have become dependent upon an on the fly management agents of their own design becoming a tad alarmed. -Mike _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
