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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:57:59 +0100
From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/11] proc: add helpers to set and get proc hidepid
and gid mount options
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:30:45AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:06 AM Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is a cleaning patch to add helpers to set and get proc mount
> > options instead of directly using them. This make it easy to track
> > what's happening and easy to update in future.
>
> On a cursory inspection, this looks like it obfuscates the code, and I
> don't see where it does something useful later in the series. What is
> this abstraction for?
To be honest, this part is from Djalal Harouni. For me, these wrappers
exist for a slight increase in readability.
I will not cry if you tell me to remove them :)
--
Rgrds, legion
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