Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:51:47 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] seccomp: don't say it was more or less mandatory
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:44:49AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:32:47AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > If you want to use Cpushare, you know that you have to enable seccomp.
> 
> Oh yeah, I know it, you know it, but not everyone will know it while
> configuring the kernel, infact I doubt they'll even know what Cpushare
> is about while they configure the kernel ;). And I doubt they should be
> required to know all those details in order to make that choice, and my
> point is that seccomp is low overhead enough that everyone can enable it
> if they're unsure, just in case. I'm just trying to explain why I
> recommend it to Y by default "if unsure".

My point is simply:

The help text for an option you need only under very specific 
circumstances shouldn't sound as if this option was nearly was 
mandatory.

For me, that's a question principle, not of risks of breakage or code 
size.

cu
Adrian

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