Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave(was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)

Torvalds, L. (2012). Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave(was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1). Linux Kernel Mailing List.

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Letter

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2012

Link

https://lkml.iu.edu/1212.2/03058.html

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Hyrum's Law
  • API and protocol design — the canonical case: Kubernetes, Go, and web-platform evolution policy, with Torvalds' "we don't break userspace" operationalising the law for the Linux kernel down to preserving syscall bugs

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    “If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs.”

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