Re: IA32 syscall 311 not implemented on x86_64

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:19:08AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

 > >  > You make a good point.  In fact, given it's unthrottled, someone
 > >  > with too much time on their hands could easily fill up a /var
 > >  > just by calling unimplemented syscalls this way.
 > 
 > I never bought this argument because there are tons of printks in the kernel
 > that can be triggered by everybody.

Then they should also be either rate limited, or removed.

 > > Actually it is kinda throttled, but only on process name.
 > > This patch just removes that stuff completely.
 > > (Also removes a bunch of trailing whitespace)
 > 
 > FF tree already has a different solution.

Adding a sysctl ? That seems way overkill to me.
What practical purpose does that printk solve ?

		Dave

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