On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:27:48AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
[snip]

> Right now what I have works.  You are changing the semantics of a
> security related feature of the system in such a way that after this
> change what I have will not work.  I agree that your work around will
> allow me to easily correct things.  However, if I fail to do so, I
> open my firewall up completely.  To me, that's an unacceptible change
> in the API.

I agree that changing this in -STABLE may be too much of a disruption
in the API. It may be too late. That's why I think this discussion
has been necessary.

However, changing the behavior in -CURRENT... That's a whole different
issue (but not really a topic for this list).
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