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On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:43:19PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:27:32 +0200 (CEST) > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > > The core dump proces will run with the privileges and in the name space > > of the process that caused the core dump. > > Don't think so. __call_usermodehelper() is executed by the khelper kernel thread. Yes, you're right the comment is wrong. It does run as root instead with global name space. I needed that because otherwise it needed a global writable directory for the core dumps. Feel free to change it in your version. That happens when you write the description months later than the code ... -Andi - 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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