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And to add to the submitter's rough day, Theo de Raadt has joined the conversation. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/55960.1697566804@cvs.openbsd.or...

  mseal() is a clone of mimmutable(2), but with an extremely over-complicated API based upon dubious arguments.

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And notice how his comment is constructive despite the lack of name calling or abusive language.

I'd love to see the name calling. I've read it several times now. I see him saying that this random patch out of the blue, without any discussion, doesn't follow any of the guidelines to submit a kernel patch, doesn't make any sense (in fact, seems to reimplement things already in the kernel), and isn't being accepted without a significant rework.

He never, ever, once, demeans the person who submitted the patch or shows a pattern of abuse to that person -- if you look up the definition of "abusive" you'll see it says (emphasis mine): "extremely offensive AND insulting". While the text may be offensive (to some, to my ex-military eyes, this is being nice), he never once insulted the author.

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