On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For example, I think the whole "let's consider lstat different from
> stat" model is broken.
Just to expand on that: I think it's also extra broken to then say "..
but we can randomly fix up user space" for it.
It's like saying "we have introduced a totally broken model, and now
we're going to make old applications change because we changed.
That's very much against the kernel philosophy. I realize other
projects work that way, but we really *really* don't work that way in
the kernel. We don't break old workflow unless there is some seriously
overriding reason, and I don't think "we have a new crazy model" is a
good reason.
If the lstat/stat difference made any sense, we could at least argue
for it. But it just doesn't.
Linus
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