Re: [PATCH] remove sys_security

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:44:15PM +0100, Mike Wray wrote:
> I'm not sure what was conceptually wrong. There are other multiplexing
> syscalls
> in the kernel - so the concept of multiplexing cannot be wrong?
> Or is setsockopt broken too?

It is conceptually wrong, yes.  Just because a mistake has been made
in the past there's no real reason to repeat it.

> Netfilter provides nf_register_sockopt() to allow open-ended registration
> of socket-opt handling by a module - without any review. So do many other
> kernel interfaces.

socket-opt handling does not come with different argument types.

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