From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>,
Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>, Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
"Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make uselib configurable (was Re: uselib() & 2.6.X?)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:16:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050112201656.GK2995@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050111223641.GA27100@logos.cnet>
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:36:41PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > >>There are more ancient system calls, like old_stat and oldolduname.
> > >>Do we want separate options for each system call that is obsoleted?
> > >>
> > >IMO, no, we do not.
> >
> > how about something like the embedded, experimental, and broken options.
> > that way normal users can disable all of them at a stroke, people who need
> > them can add them in.
>
> Thats just not an option - you would have zillions of config options.
>
> Moreover this is a system call, and the system call interface is one of the few
> supposed to be stable. You shouldnt simply assume that "no one will ever use sys_uselib()" -
> there might be programs out there who use it.
>
> I agree with Andries.
In -tiny, I've added config options for disabling _many_ syscalls (but
not this one). They all go under EMBEDDED. And then I changed the
description of EMBEDDED to imply that changing anything takes you into
nonstandard, unsupported territory.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-12 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-07 15:59 uselib() & 2.6.X? Lukasz Trabinski
2005-01-07 17:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-07 20:27 ` linux-os
2005-01-07 22:29 ` Athanasius
2005-01-07 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-08 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-07 22:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-08 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-08 18:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-09 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-09 11:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10 8:34 ` Frank Steiner
2005-01-10 16:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-10 18:28 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-11 7:49 ` Frank Steiner
2005-01-08 21:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-01-08 22:30 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-08 23:21 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-08 23:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-09 0:57 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-09 0:49 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-09 2:21 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-09 2:17 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-08 21:47 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-11 22:51 ` [PATCH] make uselib configurable (was Re: uselib() & 2.6.X?) Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-11 23:42 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-11 23:59 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-12 1:06 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-01-12 1:18 ` David Lang
2005-01-11 22:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-12 2:32 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-12 0:56 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-12 6:10 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-12 16:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-12 17:10 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-12 20:16 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2005-01-12 2:12 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-12 2:23 ` David Lang
2005-01-12 2:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-12 5:11 ` Stephen Pollei
2005-01-12 16:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-12 7:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
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