From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:16:44 -0600 > David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> From: josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:53:10 -0800 >> >>> It's not a "slippery slope"; it's been our standard practice for ages. >> >> We've never put an entire class of generic system calls behind >> a config option. > > CONFIG_SYSVIPC has been in the kernel as long as I can remember. > > I seem to remember a plan to remove that code once userspace had > finished migrating to more unixy interfaces to ipc. But in 20 years > that migration does does not seem to have finished, or even look > like it ever will. > > But if we started a slippery slope it was long long ago. Fair enough. Would be amusing if these tiny systems have it enabled. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
