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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Martin Vajnar <martin.vajnar@gmail.com>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Backwards kernel compatibility
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 08:46:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0o7gk6v.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHHiRUQ_aFObcofofa1zTdDyWuM+ZO5F0Gb50SAsZnPxKErSjw@mail.gmail.com> (Martin Vajnar's message of "Mon, 10 May 2021 07:50:44 +0200")

* Martin Vajnar:

> I'd like to ask, if it is generally supported to run recent musl on
> older kernels? My primary concern is that there are new syscalls being
> added to linux, while at the same time I do not see a switch similar
> to glibc's to select compatibility mode (--enable-kernel).

--enable-kernel is used to *remove* compatibility with older kernels,
not add it, so it does the opposite what you want.

I believe musl has greater compatibility with older kernels than glibc.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-10  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-10  5:50 Martin Vajnar
2021-05-10  6:46 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-05-10 18:58 ` Markus Wichmann
2021-05-24 13:52   ` Martin Vajnar
2021-05-24 22:00     ` Rich Felker
2021-06-02  7:38       ` Martin Vajnar
2021-06-02 11:52         ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-02 14:56           ` Rich Felker
2021-06-02 16:01             ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-02 16:18               ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-09  7:03           ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-06-08 22:16       ` Martin Vajnar
2021-06-09  0:37         ` Rich Felker

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