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From: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
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Subject: Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3
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On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:10:42PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Deep technical reason there are architectures where patching the
> system call table does not work.

Everyone knows that. This is just one of the reasons it will never be
*encouraged*, not a reason for disabling it (when it doesn't hurt to
leave it as is).

regards
john

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