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No flags?

No flags?

Posted May 9, 2026 2:35 UTC (Sat) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123)
Parent article: killswitch for short-term emergency vulnerability mitigation

Aren't kernel APIs supposed to have flags arguments?

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No flags?

Posted May 11, 2026 8:00 UTC (Mon) by cypherpunks2 (guest, #152408) [Link]

No, that's new syscalls. Internal kernel functions can use whatever prototype they want.

"Breaking" kernelspace is not a problem because Linus can just demand that all callers to adapt to any change to the API.


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