Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:24:45 -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: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:10:32 -0800
> I certainly sympathize with this concern, given the importance of software > portability. However, the tiny-hardware alternative appears ot some sort > of special-purpose embedded OS, which most definitely will suffer from > software compatibility issues. I guess that the good news is that much > of the tiny hardware that used to be 8 or 16 bits is now 32 bits, which > means that it has at least some chance of running some form of Linux. ;-)
And then if some fundamental part of userland (glibc, klibc, etc.) finds a useful way to use splice for a fundamental operation, we're back to square one.
I simply do not agree with modifying the user facing interface, especially one with decades of precedence.
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