Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:59:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:59:20 -0500 Received: from adsl-209-233-33-110.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([209.233.33.110]:33519 "EHLO lorien.emufarm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:59:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 13:59:08 -0800 From: Danek Duvall To: J Sloan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: root-owned /proc/pid files for threaded apps? Message-ID: <20020308215908.GB886@lorien.emufarm.org> Mail-Followup-To: Danek Duvall , J Sloan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020307060110.GA303@lorien.emufarm.org> <20020308100632.GA192@lorien.emufarm.org> <20020308195939.A6295@devcon.net> <20020308203157.GA457@lorien.emufarm.org> <20020308222942.A7163@devcon.net> <3C893171.2050003@lexus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C893171.2050003@lexus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:47:29PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > Andreas Ferber wrote: > > >As a side note, IMHO it would be sensible to have some way of > >disabling module autoloading of protocol modules in the network stack. > > > > What is the problem with using modules.conf e.g. > > alias net-pf-10 off I have that. The problem is that if every time a program attempts to make an IPv6 connection it forces the kernel to spawn off modprobe to go look for it, you have a performance issue. Of course, I'd imagine that a reasonably written program would not try to use IPv6 beyond the first failure. Danek - 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/