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SubjectRe: [PATCH] make uselib configurable (was Re: uselib() & 2.6.X?)
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:59:07AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> s/sys_uselib/uselib/
> The system call is uselib().
>
> Hmm - old cruft.. Why insult your users?
> I do not have source for Maple. And my xmaple binary works just fine.
> But it is a libc4 binary.
>
> You mean "on the typical recently installed Linux system, with nothing
> but the usual Linux utilities".
>
> People always claim that Linux is good in preserving binary compatibility.
> Don't know how true that was, but introducing such config options doesnt
> help.
>
> Let me also mutter about something else.
> In principle configuration options are evil. Nobody wants fifty thousand
> configuration options. But I see them multiply like ioctls.
> There should be a significant gain in having a config option.
>
>
> Maybe some argue that there is a gain in security here. Perhaps.
> Or a gain in memory. It is negligible.
> I see mostly a loss.
>
> There are more ancient system calls, like old_stat and oldolduname.
> Do we want separate options for each system call that is obsoleted?

Agreed to this complaint. I still think it might be a good idea to
allow configuring obsolete syscalls out, but doing that on a per-syscall
basis sounds like a bad idea. I always liked the way FreeBSD one
conditionals for everything that was obsoleted in a release. So by setting
only few options you could select how old binaries you want to support,
defaulting to on for all of them.
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