Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: remove ksys_dup()

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Dec 12 2019 - 13:38:52 EST


On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 03:07:52PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> ksys_dup() is used only at one place in the kernel, namely to duplicate
> fd 0 of /dev/console to stdout and stderr. The same functionality can be
> achieved by using functions already available within the kernel namespace.

Let's not expose the kernel guts to init/*.c more than absolutely unavoidable.