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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] fix file counting
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    On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 12:14 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > > > - Make the get_max_files export use _GPL - only unix.ko uses it.
    >
    > The real question is, does af_unix really need to allow beeing built
    > modular? It's quite different from other network protocol and deeply
    > tied to the kernel due to things like descriptor passing or using
    > the filesystem namespace. I already had to export another symbol that
    > really should be internal just for it, and if one module acquires lots
    > of such hacks it's usually a bad sign..

    in 2.4 the answer would have been simple; modutils back then used
    AF_UNIX stuff before it could load modules, so modular was in practice
    impossible.

    Anyway I'd agree with making this non-modular... NOBODY will use this as
    a module, or if they do loading it somehow is the very first thing done.
    You just can't live without this, so making it a module is non-sensical.


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