Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 | Date | Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:18:16 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'm a bit disappointed this has just gone in without any real discussion > on the usefulness of this for certain circumstances :(
How about "there are no correct users". Its basically impossible to patch the syscall table safely anyway. As Arjan pointed out there are races against module unload that on SMP are basically incurable. Doing the right hooks makes the AFS code portable which is a big win. - 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/
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