From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265041AbUHHCxM (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 22:53:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265040AbUHHCxM (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 22:53:12 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:51879 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265041AbUHHCxK (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2004 22:53:10 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 19:52:29 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjanv@redhat.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, jmorris@redhat.com, chrisw@osdl.org, sfrench@samba.org, mike@halcrow.us, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, mrmacman_g4@mac.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] implement in-kernel keys & keyring management Message-ID: <20040808025229.GA15737@kroah.com> References: <6453.1091838705@redhat.com> <20040807011758.62831dbf.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040807011758.62831dbf.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:17:58AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > - Various people are likely to get upset about this: > > asmlinkage long sys_keyctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3, > unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5) > > I guess the pure way to do it is to add 13 new syscalls.... I think that if the /proc interface was moved over to sysfs (which is where it should be), a number of these syscalls would go away. thanks, greg k-h