Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in

From: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:05:16 +0100

On Monday 31 December 2007 19:37:43 Torsten Kaiser wrote:

The base problem is that there already are many options to break
external modules. (CONFIG_MODULES=n ;) )

Exactly. There already are enough ways to break external modules.
No need to introduce more. ;)

The question I can't answer in this context is: Do distributions want
to support external modules?
Only if yes, your argument is valid. But then they could just disable
this feature and prevent this kind of bugreports.

That's my point. Nobody will risk bugs to save a few bytes of memory.

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References:
- [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in
  - From: Bodo Eggert
- Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in
  - From: Michael Buesch
- Re: [PATCH] Force UNIX domain sockets to be built in
  - From: Torsten Kaiser

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