Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> writes:
Umm, no way we're ever going to remove a syscall like this.
If someone besides me cares about more then rhetoric I will be happy
to reconsider and several years is plenty of time to find that out.
I aborted the removal last time precisely because we had not done an
adequate job of warning our users. A printk when we run a program
that uses the binary interface and an long enough interval the warning
makes it to the Enterprise kernels before we remove the interface
should be sufficient.
glibc uses it, and it uses it in contexts where access to the filesystem
isn't functional (e.g. in chroot.)
-hpa
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