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Re: CVS commit: src



On 23.09.2019 11:59, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:54:46AM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> I propose to add a fallback inside libc to the older syscalls. In case
>> of ENOSYS pick older syscall and zero the new struct field.
> 
> This is not how we do compat. You always have to have a new kernel before
> updating userland. Why would this change be different?
> 
> Martin
> 

So far I never landed into this before and compat here would be simple
to achieve for the transition period.

Most of userland just breaks for me now. We can ignore this pitfail of
mine and the problem will be resolved by self.

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