Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] kernel tinification: optionally compile out splice family of syscalls (splice, vmsplice, tee and sendfile)

[David Miller]

From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:16:44 -0600

> David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> From: josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:53:10 -0800
>>
>>> It's not a "slippery slope"; it's been our standard practice for ages.
>>
>> We've never put an entire class of generic system calls behind
>> a config option.
> 
> CONFIG_SYSVIPC has been in the kernel as long as I can remember.
> 
> I seem to remember a plan to remove that code once userspace had
> finished migrating to more unixy interfaces to ipc.  But in 20 years
> that migration does does not seem to have finished, or even look
> like it ever will.
> 
> But if we started a slippery slope it was long long ago.

Fair enough.

Would be amusing if these tiny systems have it enabled.
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