{"id":1083177,"date":"2022-12-06T03:57:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T08:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1083177"},"modified":"2022-12-06T03:57:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T08:57:16","slug":"a-10-minute-guide-to-the-linux-abi-opensource-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1083177","title":{"rendered":"A 10-minute guide to the Linux ABI (opensource.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Chaiken <a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/22\/12\/linux-abi\">provides an<br \/>\noverview<\/a> of Linux ABI concerns on opensource.com.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq\">\n<p>\tUnderstanding the stable ABI is a bit subtle. Consider that, while<br \/>\n\tmost of sysfs is stable ABI, the debug interfaces are guaranteed to<br \/>\n\tbe unstable since they expose kernel internals to userspace. In<br \/>\n\tgeneral, Linus Torvalds has pronounced that by &#8220;don&#8217;t break<br \/>\n\tuserspace,&#8221; he means to protect ordinary users who &#8220;just want it to<br \/>\n\twork&#8221; rather than system programmers and kernel engineers, who<br \/>\n\tshould be able to read the kernel documentation and source code to<br \/>\n\tfigure out what has changed between releases.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/917052\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 10-minute guide to the Linux ABI (opensource.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison Chaiken provides an overview of Linux ABI concerns on opensource.com. Understanding the stable ABI is a bit subtle. Consider that, while most of sysfs is stable ABI, the debug interfaces are guaranteed to be unstable since they expose kernel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1083177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1083177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}