Re: [patch] networking ipv4: remove total socket usage count from /proc/net/sockstat

Jesper,

Thanks for the explanation.  Your reasoning makes sense.  I will
consider other ways to solve my current problem and post a patch that
doesn't "break userspace" if necessary.

-andy



On 1/16/06, Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/16/06, Andy Gospodarek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What userspace app will break because of this?
> >
> > On 1/16/06, Lee Revell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:04 -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> > > > Printing the total number of sockets used in /proc/net/sockstat is out
> > > > of place in a file that is supposed to contain information related to
> > > > ipv4 sockets.  Removed output for total socket usage.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Um, you can't do that, it will break userspace.
> > >
>
> That's not the point. The point is you can't go around changing things
> exported to usersace - that has the potential to break apps.  Even if
> no app is known to the people on this list there may still be apps out
> there depending on it - and we don't break userspace without *very*
> good reasons, and even then it's announced for several months (years
> sometimes) in Documentation/feature-removal.txt and elsewhere.
>
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