Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:35:28 +0100 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: [patch] networking ipv4: remove total socket usage count from /proc/net/sockstat |
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On 1/16/06, Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> wrote: > What userspace app will break because of this? > > On 1/16/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:04 -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > > Printing the total number of sockets used in /proc/net/sockstat is out > > > of place in a file that is supposed to contain information related to > > > ipv4 sockets. Removed output for total socket usage. > > > > > > > Um, you can't do that, it will break userspace. > >
That's not the point. The point is you can't go around changing things exported to usersace - that has the potential to break apps. Even if no app is known to the people on this list there may still be apps out there depending on it - and we don't break userspace without *very* good reasons, and even then it's announced for several months (years sometimes) in Documentation/feature-removal.txt and elsewhere.
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