Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] kernel tinification: optionally compile out splice family of syscalls (splice, vmsplice, tee and sendfile)
From: One Thousand Gnomes <hidden>
Date: 2014-11-26 12:19:03
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:04:41 -0500 (EST) David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:
From: josh@joshtriplett.org Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:53:10 -0800quoted
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.
Try running an original MCC Linux binary and C lib on a current kernel We've put *entire binary formats* behind a config option. We've put older syscalls behind it, we've put sysfs behind it, sysctl behind it, the older microcode interfaces behind it, ISA bus as a concept behind options. VDSO, IPC, even 32bit support ... the list goes on and on. I'd say those were far more generic on the whole than splice/sendfile. Alan