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Why Does My eBPF Program Work on One Kernel but Fail on Another?

In a perfect world, everyone’s systems would be fully updated, patched regularly, and running the latest kernel.But let’s be real—that’s rarely the case.Some environments still rely on legacy versions of Ubuntu or Fedora, while others don't even have their kernels compiled with BTF (BPF Type Format) support.And if you’re maintaining any open-source tools, things get even messier. You have zero control over what kind of system your users will run your program on.All of this makes it tricky to ens...

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