> Removing it in the -ac tree is a good way to stimulate discussion
OK
> fixing the code that relies on it (except for the 99% of code relying on it
> which is cracker authored trojans)
No doubt, but it's not much harder to look at nm vmlinux or System.map,
so I don't see the security angle...
I'd be happy to bear the brunt of users moaning at me because they now
have to apply a kernel patch (and I have to maintain it ...), iff there
was some strongly technical reason the code has to change.
regards
john
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