Jesper, Thanks for the explanation. Your reasoning makes sense. I will consider other ways to solve my current problem and post a patch that doesn't "break userspace" if necessary.
-andy On 1/16/06, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/16/06, Andy Gospodarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What userspace app will break because of this? > > > > On 1/16/06, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:04 -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > > > Printing the total number of sockets used in /proc/net/sockstat is out > > > > of place in a file that is supposed to contain information related to > > > > ipv4 sockets. Removed output for total socket usage. > > > > > > > > > > Um, you can't do that, it will break userspace. > > > > > That's not the point. The point is you can't go around changing things > exported to usersace - that has the potential to break apps. Even if > no app is known to the people on this list there may still be apps out > there depending on it - and we don't break userspace without *very* > good reasons, and even then it's announced for several months (years > sometimes) in Documentation/feature-removal.txt and elsewhere. > > -- > Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html > Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
