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From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:50:10 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46D6C40A.9090504@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1absa5kid.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> This isn't "Oh some apps are using it let's get them to stop, because
> it is inconvenient".  This is  "No apps seems to be using this, we
> keep goofing up the maintenance and no one notices, and so it is
> likely a source of security problems and other nasties"
>   

This first claim is not consistent with the next claim:

> I have evidence that there are 1 or 2 open source applications using
> this (not counting the glibc weirdness).

If may be unmaintainable but, apparently, it's not really unused.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-30 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-28 22:40 [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-28 23:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-28 23:53   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-29  1:31     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-29  1:56       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-29 10:46         ` Alan Cox
2007-08-29 17:16           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-29 17:28             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-29 19:00               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-30 12:13                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-30 13:20             ` David Newall [this message]
2007-08-30 17:40               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-29 22:51           ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-30 19:32       ` Rob Landley
2007-08-30 18:34         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-30 18:57           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-30 23:22           ` Rob Landley
2007-09-01 22:16         ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-02  8:44           ` Rob Landley
2007-09-02  8:54             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-02 11:05               ` Rob Landley
2007-09-02 19:56                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-02 20:00                   ` Al Viro
2007-09-02 21:51                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-03  8:37                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-03  9:16                       ` Al Viro
2007-08-29  4:49   ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-30 18:56     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-29  4:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-29  5:24   ` Eric W. Biederman

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