Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:36:12 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove sys_security |
| |
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:44:15PM +0100, Mike Wray wrote: > I'm not sure what was conceptually wrong. There are other multiplexing > syscalls > in the kernel - so the concept of multiplexing cannot be wrong? > Or is setsockopt broken too?
It is conceptually wrong, yes. Just because a mistake has been made in the past there's no real reason to repeat it.
> Netfilter provides nf_register_sockopt() to allow open-ended registration > of socket-opt handling by a module - without any review. So do many other > kernel interfaces.
socket-opt handling does not come with different argument types.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |