Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262557AbVA0KsW (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:48:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262563AbVA0KmT (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:42:19 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:65503 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262568AbVA0KgM (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:36:12 -0500 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl References: <20050127101117.GA9760@infradead.org> <20050127101201.GB9760@infradead.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:36:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050127101201.GB9760@infradead.org> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:12:01 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) 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: 921 Lines: 21 Arjan van de Ven writes: > This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that > enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may > make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducability goes > down), the sysadmin needs a way to disable it globally. A global sysctl doesn't make much sense to me for this. If you want to get some program running you don't want to impact your system daemons. And a non root user couldn't enable it anyways, which can be annoying if it is needed to get some binary working. If anything I would make it a personality flag so that it can be set per process. -Andi - 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/