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Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> wrote: > > >> > > Diffing in sysctl.c is tricky, using more context is recommended. > > > suid_dumpable ended up in fs/ instead of kernel/ and the reason > > > is likely a patch with too little context. > > > > It's been in kernel/ since 2.6.13. What will break if we move it? > > > > This is security-related. If we move it we risk unsecuring people's > > machines...> > only a very little bit since the default value is "secure", the option > is to make it "insecure"... OK, that's a good point. > but yeah by this time we should just bite the bullet and rename the > variable rather than move it about That wouldn't help - we'll still break existing scripts. crap. I tend to think we leave it where it is - it's only a cosmetic irritation, isn't it? - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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