Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267548AbUJLSOR (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:14:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267483AbUJLSLi (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:11:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:13478 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266582AbUJLSLB (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:11:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:10:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: Andrew Morton , Subject: Re: secure computing for 2.6.7 In-Reply-To: <20041012174605.GH17372@dualathlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 24 On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > However as said boinc and seti would better start using it too. Thinking about it some more, I'm not convinced they can. After all, they need to get new data to perform calculations on, and pass the results of previous calculations on to the server. In order to do that, the user needs to run code that's not restricted by seccomp. Taking that into account, what's the point ? -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/