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		porridgeraisin 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The phaseout of the mmap() file operation in Linux "We do NOT break userspace"

sethops1 42 days ago [–]

_shifty eyes over at cgroups_

o11c 42 days ago | [–]

Or the numerous syscall breakages (2.4 to 2.6 was most notable, but there have been plenty before/since).

Or all sorts of things in /proc/ and /sys/.

And the sheer nastiness of PPID 0.

And ...

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