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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:31:02 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 9/9] x86-64: Add CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to feature-removal-schedule
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 05:46:41PM +0900, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote:
> > CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS was added in the previous patch as a
> > temporary hack to avoid penalizing users who don't build glibc from
> > git.
> 
> I really hate that name.
> 
> Do you have *any* reason to call this "unsafe"?
> 
> Seriously. The whole patch series just seems annoying.

and assumes everyone is using glibc which is just wrong.

-Andi

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