Re: [GIT] Networking

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jan 06 2012 - 20:55:39 EST


On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:50 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It replaces the crappy and hard to scale procfs socket listing junk,
> which doesn't even provide a way to filter requests.

No it doesn't.

Look, I have a *recent* distro (up-to-date F16) and the tool that is
mentioned (ss) doesn't actually use the new feature even when compiled
in.

So it doesn't "replace" anything, and buys normal people nothing at all.

Some day, maybe. Today? No. It's pure baggage. It shouldn't be "default y".

Linus
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