linux-kernel - Re: Preparation for Linux 3.0

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Message-ID: <20110602191101.GC31586@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:11:01 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Preparation for Linux 3.0

On Thu, 02 Jun 2011, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> We need to widely announce that userland applications using branches based on
> /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease need to be fixed.

A debug patch to disclose any userspace application that touches that file
would be of some help, I suppose?

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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