Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:16:56 -0800 | | From | Matt Mackall <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make uselib configurable (was Re: uselib() & 2.6.X?) |
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:36:41PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > >>There are more ancient system calls, like old_stat and oldolduname. > > >>Do we want separate options for each system call that is obsoleted? > > >> > > >IMO, no, we do not. > > > > how about something like the embedded, experimental, and broken options. > > that way normal users can disable all of them at a stroke, people who need > > them can add them in. > > Thats just not an option - you would have zillions of config options. > > Moreover this is a system call, and the system call interface is one of the few > supposed to be stable. You shouldnt simply assume that "no one will ever use sys_uselib()" - > there might be programs out there who use it. > > I agree with Andries.
In -tiny, I've added config options for disabling _many_ syscalls (but not this one). They all go under EMBEDDED. And then I changed the description of EMBEDDED to imply that changing anything takes you into nonstandard, unsupported territory.
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