[taeric]

The whole section on "just change the name" fits interestingly in with the way that the kernel is developed. They have been rather strict on this for a long time. A function released to the wild stays. Changes to it require a new function.

[Rapzid]

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html

[dmoney]

Also part of the C4 methodology: https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:22/C4/

* A patch that introduces new features to a Public Contract SHOULD do so using new names.