Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 | Date | Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:49:17 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> But what about the recent discussion on the removal of sys_call_table ? > > (I believe it was along the lines of "it's ugly, prevent it ...", "ah, > but it has real uses, so why can't it stay as deprecated/unadvised ?" > "*no response*"). > > I'm a bit disappointed this has just gone in without any real discussion > on the usefulness of this for certain circumstances :(
Removing it in the -ac tree is a good way to stimulate discussion and fixing the code that relies on it (except for the 99% of code relying on it which is cracker authored trojans) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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