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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] revoke/frevoke system calls V2
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:00:28 -0700
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Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On 7/27/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> No need to add sys_revoke.
> 
> Of course not.  I didn't imply that.  sys_revokeat is all that's
> needed.  I just provided the other name to make clear they are
> equivalent wrt to the file name property.  Not everyone knows the *at
> functions.

Right.  We shouldn't add ANY more filename system calls at all, though. 
  They can be libc wrappers.

	-hpa