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		sitzkrieg 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We do not break userspace (2012) when was the last time you tried running a binary that was compiled against an ancient glibc?

FreakLegion 39 days ago [–]

All the time, where ancient is, say, 15+ years old. I can't remember ever having an issue with it, unlike the reverse [1]. Even if there were issues, though, glibc's symbol versioning is a different beast than the Linux ABI.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31963255

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