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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lcall disappeared? kernel CVS destabilized?
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:30:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1llawajap.fsf@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050114010132.GJ5949@dualathlon.random> (Andrea Arcangeli's message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:01:32 +0100")

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com> writes:

> I'm porting the seccomp patch to 2.6.10, do you have an idea where lcall
> (i.e. call gates for binary compatibility with other OS) went? I can't
> find it anywhere. Looks like it was dropped but I must be sure of that,
> and especially I must be sure that you don't add it again without me
> noticing that I had to patch it ;). Is lcall definitely dead code that I
> can forget about or am I missing something? Thanks.

hch removed it some time ago because nobody used it anymore (Linux ABI
is not supported on 2.6) and it showed some potential security issues 

-Andi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-14  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-14  1:01 lcall disappeared? kernel CVS destabilized? Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-14  1:26 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-14  1:49   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-14  1:30 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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