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by bigger_cheese 294 days ago
A lot of the Unix/Linux Syscall api has a version 2+

For example dup(), dup2(), dup3() and pipe(), pipe2() etc

LWN has an article: https://lwn.net/Articles/585415/

It talks about avoiding this by designing future APIs using a flags bitmask to allow API to be extended in future.