Re: [PATCH] remove sys_security

From: Christoph Hellwig (hchat_private)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 10:36:12 PDT

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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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