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Re: Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24
- From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at virtuozzo dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Dmitry Mishin <dim at virtuozzo dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:15:44 +0300
- Subject: Re: Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24
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- References: <D2E226D6 dot B2B03%dim at virtuozzo dot com> <56BC50DF dot 9020500 at redhat dot com>
> (I am worried about /proc and /sys layout differences between the
> various container technologies out there, and there have already been
> proposals discussed on this list which would not work in certain
> containers, without us realizing at the time that there would be a
> compatibility issue. Without more upstream testing involving various
> container technologies, such issues, if they make it into the code base,
> will only be caught extremely late.)
Can you elaborate on that? I admit that /sys is sometimes painful (we've
already seen IIRC 3 layouts), but what's wrong with /proc? I can't remember
any issues with its files being incompatible between different kernel
versions.
-- Pavel