From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751233AbWGUWPP (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:15:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751235AbWGUWPP (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:15:15 -0400 Received: from mail1.webmaster.com ([216.152.64.168]:34574 "EHLO mail1.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751233AbWGUWPN (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:15:13 -0400 From: "David Schwartz" To: Subject: RE: why is intercepting system calls considerred bad? Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:14:55 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3420082f0607202206j78569b3fm56d61138c65426bf@mail.gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Importance: Normal X-Authenticated-Sender: joelkatz@webmaster.com X-Spam-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:10:08 -0700 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 206.171.168.138 X-Return-Path: davids@webmaster.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: davids@webmaster.com X-MDAV-Processed: mail1.webmaster.com, Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:10:09 -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I recently met a kernel janitor, who told me that intercepting system > calls is undesirable, why? It's a club. Software development should be done with scalpels. DS