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Message-ID: <20080424154220.3dae36a1@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:42:20 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	michael.kerrisk@...il.com, linux-man@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alternative to sys_indirect, part 1

> Somebody please make a call and then let's go on with life.  I don't
> care much either way anymore.  I do hope nobody thinks this is an issue
> which can be completely ignored (see, e.g., the bug I pointed to the
> other day).

Its very hard to do that without knowing what other Unixlike and POSIX OS
plan to do and if we'll end up with a third yet again different API to
support when it reaches a standards body.

We shouldn't be seeing this as a Linux problem, its a BSD problem, an AIX
problem, a Solaris problem and an HPUX problem and really wants one
solution applying across distributions or it will harm everyone in the
long term.

Alan
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