> But what about the recent discussion on the removal of sys_call_table ?
>
> (I believe it was along the lines of "it's ugly, prevent it ...", "ah,
> but it has real uses, so why can't it stay as deprecated/unadvised ?"
> "*no response*").
>
> I'm a bit disappointed this has just gone in without any real discussion
> on the usefulness of this for certain circumstances :(
Removing it in the -ac tree is a good way to stimulate discussion and
fixing the code that relies on it (except for the 99% of code relying on it
which is cracker authored trojans)
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