Well of course this makes sense - everything eventually relates back to the kernel, doesn’t it?
So is the suggestion that Linus can effectively block these hooks from being integrated in, or does he basically say I don’t like it but do it if you must and we’ll see who comes out the winner in the end?
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“So is the suggestion that Linus can effectively block these hooks from being integrated in, or does he basically say I don’t like it but do it if you must and we’ll see who comes out the winner in the end?”
Well, they aren’t ‘Linux’ hooks alone.
It goes back to good-old raw down-to-earth UNIX days,
and VFS (virtual file systems) grew out of that.
AIX has forms of the calls, Solaris, HPUX, Apple’s OSX (since it is a BSD Unix), and all sorts of versions of Linux, etc.
I *think* Windows has VFS calls too.
I could be mistaken, though.
I only did a bit of kernel module stuff, and it has been awhile.
It sounded like good sexy work when I first started coding, but 20 years later when I actually had to do it I found that dealing with the kernel can be nasty.
Timing issues, callouts between system and user space, etc, can be a nightmare to write - much less debug.
I imagine all kernel hooks could be blocked - but then that wouldn’t be the UNIX way.