Re: SG_IO and security

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Aug 13 2004 - 14:43:04 EST




On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>2B
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > I have no idea how many apps use this ioctl, does anyone have a rough
> > list?
>
> Add a rate-limited "this feature is deprecated" feature and find out...

Googling for it does show it as being documented and apparently used by a
few programs, at least...

Linus
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