Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752982Ab0AWIFM (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:05:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751825Ab0AWIFL (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:05:11 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f186.google.com ([209.85.223.186]:56472 "EHLO mail-iw0-f186.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751460Ab0AWIFJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:05:09 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=OKzfF3q0VRuLsjcz/29zezC8pqGVWuwkFGsfnvlQDgJoTV6ApZdIYWgFYNAJFo/W7O QrZSsRv8GP6O98A2tA7ETrdg60vmGuxRU3idYGenBCqMebCafHhrjRaSAdd7knfw7NPo PPsbB1ou6LcBcAlZLce3Zwf24eaXjnlqhaNuM= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100121013822.28781960.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100122005147.GD22003@redhat.com> <20100121170541.7425ff10.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100122182827.GA13185@redhat.com> <20100122200129.GG22003@redhat.com> <20100122221348.GA4263@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:05:07 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: linux-next: add utrace tree From: Alexey Dobriyan To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Oleg Nesterov , Andrew Morton , Stephen Rothwell , Peter Zijlstra , Peter Zijlstra , "Fr??d??ric Weisbecker" , LKML , Steven Rostedt , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , utrace-devel@redhat.com, Thomas Gleixner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 14 On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > This is why when somebody brought up "you could do a seccomp-like thing on > top of utrace" that my reaction was and is just totally negative. It shows > all the wrong kinds of tying things together. seccomp-via-utrace should be just removed to be honest before its users. It entered the tree because it was very small and simple. If rewritten, it no longer is small and simple because of whole kernel/utrace.c. -- 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/