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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 20:03, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> > Can we delete the specialty syscalls now?
> 
> I was lead to believe that Linus designed them, so he may be emotionally attatched 
> to them, but I think there would be few others that would cry over the loss ...

You mean like the wonderfully pointless sys_readahead. The sooner these
calls go the better.

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