From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: David Newall <david@davidnewall.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 11:40:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m18x7s2a58.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D6C40A.9090504@davidnewall.com> (David Newall's message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:50:10 +0930")
David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> writes:
> 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.
Only in a strict mathematical sense. I seem to recall patches to
those programs or seeing that it doesn't matter. Things are sufficient
that I expect that in 2 years time when we revisit this. We won't
be able to find anything that cares.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-30 17:41 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 [this message]
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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