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Subject: Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3
To: movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com (John Levon)
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:49:17 +0100 (BST)
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> 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 :(

Removing it in the -ac tree is a good way to stimulate discussion and
fixing the code that relies on it (except for the 99% of code relying on it
which is cracker authored trojans)
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