Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752068AbWCKHxT (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:53:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752069AbWCKHxT (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:53:19 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:54684 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752068AbWCKHxS (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2006 02:53:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 23:51:03 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: garloff@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE in /proc/sys/fs/ Message-Id: <20060310235103.4e9c9457.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1142063254.3055.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20060310155738.GL5766@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20060310145605.08bf2a67.akpm@osdl.org> <1142061816.3055.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060310234155.685456cd.akpm@osdl.org> <1142063254.3055.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 635 Lines: 18 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > > > > but yeah by this time we should just bite the bullet and rename the > > > variable rather than move it about > > > > That wouldn't help - we'll still break existing scripts. > > why? (I mean the KERN_ to FS_ rename in the kernel, that's not exported > to userland anywhere) oic. What are you expecting here? Reading skills? - 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/