Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753369AbZF1VtG (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:49:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752210AbZF1Vsx (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:48:53 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:45646 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752106AbZF1Vsx (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:48:53 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:48:55 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Neil Horman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, earl_chew@agilent.com, Oleg Nesterov , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern Message-ID: <20090628214855.GC6760@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20090622172818.GB14673@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20090625163050.d6a71a13.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090626104804.GA7337@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20090626092001.32e35e17.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090628193112.GA6760@one.firstfloor.org> <20090628135235.10f9b153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1108 Lines: 31 > Andrew should I toss all 100 or so patches over the wall to you > and your -mm tree? Or should I maintain a public git tree based > at 2.6.31-rc1? Get it into linux-next and ask Linus to pull it when > the merge window comes? What do these 100 odd patches do exactly? I think DEFINE_SYSCTL()/ELF section would be the correct direction to go for all global variable sysctls. Then the binary sysctls could be handled by a global table in a separate file like you described [My old patch back then also had a sysctl_name() syscall to still allow changing sysctl without mounting /proc, but that wasn't very popular] For dynamically generated sysctls (relatively rare but there) the current interfaces are not great, but could be probably kept. That all doesn't really need 100 patches though. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/