On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:38:20PM -0400, Ameer Armaly wrote: > Hi all. I was reading in to some of the fs code, and I've found out that > oldstat and friends have been deprecated since linux 2.0. Is there any > reason why these calls should not be removed outright or are there cases > where they are still needed? We can still run binaries from 1991 or thereabouts. Removing oldstat would break that ability. We should probably make those symbols conditional on CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT or introduce a new CONFIG_COMPAT_ANCIENT flag or something. Why are you keen to remove it? It doesn't cost many bytes of kernel image. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
