Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24

Pavel Emelyanov xemul@virtuozzo.com
Thu Feb 11 10:15:00 GMT 2016


> (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



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