[OpenAFS-devel] Updated redhat workaround patch

[Derek Atkins]

"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> Probably not redhat, but Alan Cox. I believe he has been very vocal in
> the past against our using syscall hooks.

Except Alan does not work for Red Hat, and you will notice that these
are SPECIFICALLY Red Hat patches to the 2.4.18 kernel.  These
restrictions do not exist in the core, 2.4.18 (or 2.4.19) kernel.
So it cannot be Alan, it is Red Hat.

Yes, Alan does not like the syscall hooks (not that I understand why
-- there are lot of GOOD THINGS you can do by hooking into the syscall
table, including some interesting security projects).  Alan has never
answered the questions regarding the other hooks that AFS needs (i.e.
PAG setting).

> -- Nathan

-derek

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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 8:37 AM
> > To: Chaskiel M Grundman
> > Cc: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Updated redhat workaround patch
> > 
> > 
> > Chaskiel M Grundman <cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > --On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:17:03 +0200 Frank Bagehorn
> > > <FBA@zurich.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What would be the sense in leaving out 
> > kallsyms_symbol_to_address and
> > > > keeping kallsyms_address_to_symbol ?
> > > My personal suspicion is that it was intended to 
> > specifically break my
> > > previous patch. hence the diatribe in the P.S. of my announcement.
> > 
> > Why would Red Hat specifically care about OpenAFS?  In particular, why
> > would they care about making it fail to work?
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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