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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:25:30 -0500
From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] networking ipv4: remove total socket usage count from /proc/net/sockstat
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What userspace app will break because of this?

On 1/16/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:04 -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> > Printing the total number of sockets used in /proc/net/sockstat is out
> > of place in a file that is supposed to contain information related to
> > ipv4 sockets.  Removed output for total socket usage.
> >
>
> Um, you can't do that, it will break userspace.
>
> Lee
>
>
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