Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262371AbVCOKJP (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 05:09:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262369AbVCOKJP (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 05:09:15 -0500 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:62944 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262371AbVCOKJL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2005 05:09:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:09:03 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Andrew Morton Cc: Adrian Bunk , andrea@cpushare.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [-mm patch] seccomp: don't say it was more or less mandatory Message-ID: <20050315100903.GA32198@elte.hu> References: <20050223014233.6710fd73.akpm@osdl.org> <20050224215136.GK8651@stusta.de> <20050224224134.GE20715@opteron.random> <20050225211453.GC3311@stusta.de> <20050226013137.GO20715@opteron.random> <20050301003247.GY4021@stusta.de> <20050301004449.GV8880@opteron.random> <20050303145147.GX4608@stusta.de> <20050303135556.5fae2317.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050303135556.5fae2317.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 34 * Andrew Morton wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > 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. > > I think the sort of sell-your-cycles service which this patch enables is a > neat idea, and one which is worth supporting, especially as the kernel > patch is so tiny. So we want as many machines as possible to support it. > So people don't need a special kernel just to join in. > > Others may disagree, although nobody has. > > And the patch is tiny. see my earlier counter-arguments in the thread starting at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110630922022462&w=2 end result of the thread: seccomp is completely unnecessary code-bloat and can be equivalently implemented via ptrace. I cannot believe this made it into -BK ... Ingo - 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/