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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:48:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: 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, 7 Apr 2002, John Levon wrote:

> 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 :(

  Sure, removing that would break a lot of cracker software. Oh wait,
maybe that's a good thing...

  For legitimate use, if any, a compile-time optional system call could be
added requiring a capability to use, and programs which are currently
doing that (AFS?) can be converted to use another f/s interface. I have
seen a few mentions of software which DO use that capability, I'm not sure
I've seen one which can be done no other way. 

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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