Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] kernel tinification: optionally compile out splice family of syscalls (splice, vmsplice, tee and sendfile)
From: Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
Date: 2014-11-25 19:16:44
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David Miller [off-list ref] writes:
From: josh-iaAMLnmF4UmaiuxdJuQwMA@public.gmane.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.
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. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html