Eric W. Biederman wrote:
This isn't "Oh some apps are using it let's get them to stop, because it is inconvenient". This is "No apps seems to be using this, we keep goofing up the maintenance and no one notices, and so it is likely a source of security problems and other nasties"
This first claim is not consistent with the next claim:
I have evidence that there are 1 or 2 open source applications using this (not counting the glibc weirdness).
If may be unmaintainable but, apparently, it's not really unused. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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