On 10/12/22 05:29, Florian Weimer wrote: >> What did you think of the proposal to disable existing binaries and >> start from scratch? Elaborated in the coverletter in the section >> "Compatibility of Existing Binaries/Enabling Interface". > The ABI was finalized around four years ago, and we have shipped several > Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions with it. Other > distributions did as well. It's a bit late to make changes now, and > certainly not for such trivialities. Just to be clear: You're saying that a user/kernel ABI was "finalized" by glibc shipping the user side of it, before there being an upstream kernel implementation?