Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759908AbXH3NU0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:20:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754057AbXH3NUP (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:20:15 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:32803 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753343AbXH3NUN (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:20:13 -0400 Message-ID: <46D6C40A.9090504@davidnewall.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:50:10 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion. References: <20070828230459.GA15937@infradead.org> <46D4CC81.4060400@zytor.com> <20070829114604.242b976c@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 18 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > This isn't "Oh some apps are using it let's get them to stop, because > it is inconvenient". This is "No apps seems to be using this, we > keep goofing up the maintenance and no one notices, and so it is > likely a source of security problems and other nasties" > This first claim is not consistent with the next claim: > I have evidence that there are 1 or 2 open source applications using > this (not counting the glibc weirdness). If may be unmaintainable but, apparently, it's not really unused. - 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/