Hello, On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 10:26:45AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> > Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:23:22 +0100 > > > I don't know that anyone's ever tried saying "show me the chapter and > > verse of the documentation" > > Do you know why I brought this up? Because the person I am replying > to told me that the syscall documentation should have suggested this > or that. > > That's why.
:-) My intention was for sure not to upset anybody. Just to reiterate, the point of patch is simple, there was a change in behavior in the system call from one kernel version to the other. As I mentioned, I agree that the userspace could use other means to achieve the same, but still the system call behavior has changed. > > So let's concentrate on the other aspects of my reply, ok? I agree. I would prefer to understand here what is the technical reason not to accept these patches other than "use other system calls". -- All the best, Eduardo Valentin
