[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Hackage on Linux

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/27/10 05:58 , Simon Farnsworth wrote:
> If you don't mind, I'd like a proper reference for this; looking at the 
> Linux kernel documentation as you suggest tells me that the kernelspace to 
> userspace ABI is supposed to be 100% stable, such that I can take all the 
> binaries (including shared libraries) from an i386 Linux 2.0 system, and run 
> them in a chroot on my x86-64 Linux 2.6.35 system.

Maybe it's "supposed" to be, but even with more recent stuff (like, say,
binary GHC releases --- which use glibc shared even if Haskell libs aren't)
I quite often see programs fail to run because the kernel changed something
and the kernel/userspace interface changed as a result.  A written policy is
worthless if it isn't followed.

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brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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