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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 21:00:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070902200010.GS21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1d4x0zvri.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> - I think all that is left is superblock handling and some backward
>   compatibility magic. (Using the follow_link trick to automatically
>   mount /proc/sys)

NAK.  Let's explicitly mount this stuff in init scripts; it won't break
on older kernels and there's no excuse for that kind of kludges in the
kernel.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-02 20:00 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
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 [this message]
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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