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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 18:33:43 +0100
From: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3
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On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 06:42:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> > And, unless this is reversed the OpenAFS kernel module won't load (it 
> > needs sys_call_table.):
> 
> Correct. There was agreement a very long time ago that code should not patch
> the syscall table (for one its not safe). AFS probably needs fixing so the
> AFS syscall hook is exported portably and nicely in the syscall code.

Sure, AFS can do that ...

But what about the recent discussion on the removal of sys_call_table ?

(I believe it was along the lines of "it's ugly, prevent it ...", "ah,
but it has real uses, so why can't it stay as deprecated/unadvised ?"
"*no response*").

I'm a bit disappointed this has just gone in without any real discussion
on the usefulness of this for certain circumstances :(

regards
john

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