Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:09:03 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [-mm patch] seccomp: don't say it was more or less mandatory |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote: > > > > My point is simply: > > > > The help text for an option you need only under very specific > > circumstances shouldn't sound as if this option was nearly was > > mandatory. > > I think the sort of sell-your-cycles service which this patch enables is a > neat idea, and one which is worth supporting, especially as the kernel > patch is so tiny. So we want as many machines as possible to support it. > So people don't need a special kernel just to join in. > > Others may disagree, although nobody has. > > And the patch is tiny.
see my earlier counter-arguments in the thread starting at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110630922022462&w=2
end result of the thread: seccomp is completely unnecessary code-bloat and can be equivalently implemented via ptrace. I cannot believe this made it into -BK ...
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