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["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/6/06, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [ Ahh finally, Linux-centric! ]
>
> For the most part, kernel interfaces have
> been the exact same from the standpoint of user-space apps since kernel
> 2.0 on-ward.
[Catching up on an old e-mail]

Possibly true of the ABI, but not true of the API.  (Application
Programmers Interface.)

/sys and /proc have had a lot of churn over the last several years.
They are part of the kernel API.  (A lot of the SAN/iSCSI/SATA
scanning/removing/hotswapping functionality is only exposed thru
/sys).  They have added a few new fs types such as debugfs,etc.  (I
can't remember them all.)

Further there has been a move to a dynamic /dev, and I can't recall
the name but the disk naming conventions during bootup are changing
also in products like SLES.

Overall it seems to me the userland/kernel interfaces have been very
unstable in linux for the last 3 or 4 years.  I'm not sure if that is
about to stabilize or not.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century

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