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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.

	-hpa