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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:07:03 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Dont use openat()
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Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> We can certainly remove that reliance - wanna send a patch for it?

Come on, the silliness has to stop.  The kernel must be recent and to
use it adequately the C library also must be recent.  And "recent" is
not even correct anymore: the functions are available for more then two
years.  Removing the use of the modern interfaces makes everything
slower and might even re-introduce race conditions my patch fixed.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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