On Sep 29, 12:59pm, smb@cs.columbia.edu ("Steven M. Bellovin") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: firefox-bin-java anyone?

| >(I'd personally prefer to see the check added to the kernel directly and rip
| >out the mount_procfs bits altogether.  Just using COMPAT_LINUX as a switch
| >there isn't very useful, since it leaves the compat_linux.o LKM in the
| >dust...)
| >
| 
| What is the disadvantage of that flag always being enabled?  Does it 
| need to be an option?
| 

The only disadvantage I see is name space pollution and function duplication.

christos