[libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002

[Mark Brown]

On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 11:29  AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> While _I_ think it's an argument for trying to make glibc go on a diet.

Keeping in mind that whatever we add, we will have hell trying to
remove. Binary compatibility is going to be the keyword here...

This is why we must carefully consider what we add -- we can't
really remove it later if we are wrong.

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