David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Only in a strict mathematical sense. I seem to recall patches to those programs or seeing that it doesn't matter. Things are sufficient that I expect that in 2 years time when we revisit this. We won't be able to find anything that cares. Eric - 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/
