Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261858AbVANBhN (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:37:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261720AbVANBdh (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:33:37 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:21700 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261751AbVANBaz (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:30:55 -0500 To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: lcall disappeared? kernel CVS destabilized? References: <20050114010132.GJ5949@dualathlon.random> From: Andi Kleen Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:30:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050114010132.GJ5949@dualathlon.random> (Andrea Arcangeli's message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2005 02:01:32 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 18 Andrea Arcangeli 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 - 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/