Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:18:16 +0100 (BST)


> I'm a bit disappointed this has just gone in without any real discussion
> on the usefulness of this for certain circumstances :(

How about "there are no correct users". Its basically impossible to patch
the syscall table safely anyway. As Arjan pointed out there are races
against module unload that on SMP are basically incurable. Doing the
right hooks makes the AFS code portable which is a big win.
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