From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758228Ab2D1AR5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:17:57 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:47995 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752895Ab2D1AR4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:17:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4F9B33BF.908@zytor.com> References: <20120427.151433.1007849975903946491.davem@davemloft.net> <20120427.151651.2274764174217164454.davem@davemloft.net> <20120427.152404.2292425516870981391.davem@davemloft.net> <4F9B050C.3000309@zytor.com> <4F9B2420.5030806@zytor.com> <4F9B33BF.908@zytor.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:17:34 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: wl0QnFuH9lepTNpCqpsk4hoKzYs Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error. To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: David Miller , mjt@tls.msk.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, autofs@vger.kernel.org, raven@themaw.net, thomas@m3y3r.de, stable@kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:03 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Still, I have to admit... we have a grand total of three users of this > interface as far as we know (autofs, systemd, and am-utils if they ever > revved that one to v5.)  Would it really not be better to do the > zero-eating user space fix? Considering the sh*t that is in user space now, and how distributions tend to take years (if ever) to actually update some programs, I don't see how that would actually work in practice. Linus