Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755573AbYKKK0f (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:26:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754651AbYKKK01 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:26:27 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44295 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752155AbYKKK00 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:26:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Christoph Hellwig X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Schermerhorn Subject: Re: wierd new config options In-Reply-To: Christoph Hellwig's message of Thursday, 23 October 2008 20:18:18 +0200 <20081023181818.GA25430@lst.de> References: <20081023181818.GA25430@lst.de> X-Windows: you'd better sit down. Message-Id: <20081111102615.2D2D61541CA@magilla.localdomain> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:26:15 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 16 > CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is similarly odd, it turns something on > that break old userspace, this really really should be a sysctl to turn > on instead of a config option. Both the kconfig help text and the commit's log mention that this is controlled per-process via /proc/PID/coredump_filter. The new config option only changes the boot-time default value to be inherited. Thanks, Roland -- 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/