IT adds infrastructure to implement syscalls without peer review.
End then it ends beeing crap like the selinux syscalls.
> The only code that we really want to see in the mainline kernel is the hooks
> for permission checks. Personally I would not mind if no security module
> ever gets included in Linus' source tree.
And exactly these hooks harm. They are all over the place, have performance
and code size impact and mess up readability. Why can't you just maintain
an external patch like i.e. mosix folks that nead similar deep changes?
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