Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:27:41 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] kernel tinification: optionally compile out splice family of syscalls (splice, vmsplice, tee and sendfile) | From | David Miller <> |
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:16:44 -0600
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes: > >> From: josh@joshtriplett.org >> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:53:10 -0800 >> >>> It's not a "slippery slope"; it's been our standard practice for ages. >> >> We've never put an entire class of generic system calls behind >> a config option. > > CONFIG_SYSVIPC has been in the kernel as long as I can remember. > > I seem to remember a plan to remove that code once userspace had > finished migrating to more unixy interfaces to ipc. But in 20 years > that migration does does not seem to have finished, or even look > like it ever will. > > But if we started a slippery slope it was long long ago.
Fair enough.
Would be amusing if these tiny systems have it enabled.
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