Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751039AbWAPUfc (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:35:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751070AbWAPUfc (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:35:32 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.192]:47808 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750932AbWAPUfb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:35:31 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hBVMFjArE9HZnoS5OZ+axCziwUfXknepo3BonQSkBLmuP1seoBfvdA5Ul58rifNOW9J1vA2Cm1w9d7SHpMtddcLpbL+RoKi5xSJ1KAA/EtctXlzBQtYLCjfwmpJ9BJIwphvGInc6slyG0mHZ8DUy+RaZWrcSdA7gftYQeDtL/TY= Message-ID: <9a8748490601161235k2defec82sa51a17e4fc14b22f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:35:28 +0100 From: Jesper Juhl To: Andy Gospodarek Subject: Re: [patch] networking ipv4: remove total socket usage count from /proc/net/sockstat Cc: Lee Revell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060116200432.GB14060@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> <1137442446.19444.20.camel@mindpipe> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1338 Lines: 29 On 1/16/06, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > What userspace app will break because of this? > > On 1/16/06, Lee Revell 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. > > That's not the point. The point is you can't go around changing things exported to usersace - that has the potential to break apps. Even if no app is known to the people on this list there may still be apps out there depending on it - and we don't break userspace without *very* good reasons, and even then it's announced for several months (years sometimes) in Documentation/feature-removal.txt and elsewhere. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/