[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Kernel tinification: shrinking the kernel and avoiding size regressions

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 8:50 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/2014 10:46 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>
>> To mitigate that some, new syscalls could be added with CONFIG
>> wrappers that default to disabled.  The userbases can't use something
>> that isn't explicitly turned on, and people would likely need to
>> request those syscalls.  It would give the distros at least a measure
>> of how frequently that new syscall would be used, and in what
>> situations.
>>
>
> In practice that is equivalent to not having the syscall at all.

Amen!

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