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Comment by malkia

1 year ago

I think Windows is the epitome of following Hyrum's Law decades before Hyrum's Law came into being :)

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/13632600649293620...

I guess the linux kernel still supprorting binaries from ages ago might be too.

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LoganDark  1 year ago

> I guess the linux kernel still supprorting binaries from ages ago might be too.

Actually it's Linus making sure that kernel changes don't break old binaries from ages ago. And in fact there were many cases of undocumented behavior being relied on by apps, and Linus would send big rants about how you never break userspace, whether the behavior is documented or not.

Don't have any of them on hand right now, unfortunately.