Re: [patch] networking ipv4: remove total socket usage count from /proc/net/sockstat

[Jesper Juhl]

On 1/16/06, Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What userspace app will break because of this?
>
> On 1/16/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
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 linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/