Solaris evolution and interface stability - Bob Sproull interviews David Brown

Sun Fellow Bob Sproull interviews David Brown in the latest edition of ACM Queue on the topic of nondisruptive system evolution and innovation (yes, you can have both) in Solaris, and in particular, the reasons why strict Application Binary Interface (ABI) stability is so important to customers, going back to 1994 for some lessons learned during Solaris 2.4 . Included is a good introduction to the the Solaris interface taxonomy, which you may see mentioned at the bottom of Solaris man pages, or in the ARC cases.

A good read for everyone, especially if you are joining the OpenSolaris community.

Posted at 09:25PM Oct 16, 2006 by Peter Schow in Sun  |