From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Ameer Armaly <ameerarmaly@bellsouth.net>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oldstat and friends
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 19:53:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060807015300.GI4379@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c6b9c2$2a21a5c0$0400a8c0@ameer>
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:38:20PM -0400, Ameer Armaly wrote:
> Hi all. I was reading in to some of the fs code, and I've found out that
> oldstat and friends have been deprecated since linux 2.0. Is there any
> reason why these calls should not be removed outright or are there cases
> where they are still needed?
We can still run binaries from 1991 or thereabouts. Removing oldstat
would break that ability.
We should probably make those symbols conditional on CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT
or introduce a new CONFIG_COMPAT_ANCIENT flag or something.
Why are you keen to remove it? It doesn't cost many bytes of kernel
image.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-07 1:53 UTC|newest]
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2006-08-07 1:38 oldstat and friends Ameer Armaly
2006-08-07 1:53 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-08-07 2:29 ` Ameer Armaly
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