Public bug reported: We're currently planning to be more proactive in deprecating the uselib() syscall similar to how we deprecated the sysctl() syscall. This will be a long process of course but the starting point is to set CONFIG_USELIB=n in all new Ubuntu versions. I spoke to Eric and apparently RHEL 8 has it disabled too.
The regression potential is quite minimal as this interface should have very few users and libc hasn't used it since libc4 or libc5. I was wondering what people's opinion on this were. The thread is: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200518130251.zih2s32q2rxhxg6f@wittgenstein https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cag48ez1fspvvypjso6badg7vb84ktudqjrk1d7vyhrm06ai...@mail.gmail.com https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200518144627.sv5nesysvtgxwkp7@wittgenstein https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected] ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1879454 Title: Set CONFIG_USELIB=n in Ubuntu kernels Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: We're currently planning to be more proactive in deprecating the uselib() syscall similar to how we deprecated the sysctl() syscall. This will be a long process of course but the starting point is to set CONFIG_USELIB=n in all new Ubuntu versions. I spoke to Eric and apparently RHEL 8 has it disabled too. The regression potential is quite minimal as this interface should have very few users and libc hasn't used it since libc4 or libc5. I was wondering what people's opinion on this were. The thread is: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200518130251.zih2s32q2rxhxg6f@wittgenstein https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cag48ez1fspvvypjso6badg7vb84ktudqjrk1d7vyhrm06ai...@mail.gmail.com https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200518144627.sv5nesysvtgxwkp7@wittgenstein https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1879454/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
