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SubjectRe: syscall: sys_promote
Alan Cox wrote:

>On Gwe, 2005-08-26 at 19:02 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
>
>
>>>3) admins can `promote' a suspect process instead of killing it.
>>>
>>>Is it also generally useful in practice? Thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>
>The locking is wrong. At the moment the entire kernel assumes that a
>process uid is not changed by anyone else. After you've implemented uid
>locking/refcounting for tasks you can add the syscall but until then its
>not a good idea. I don't think its a good idea anyway - selinux can do
>far more useful things.
>

Indeed. "Also it's not obvious that locking can be done right (or that
anybody cares). "
We can ignore it safely. sys_promote is a different approach from
selinux. sys_promote is to let sysadmin manually manipulate a running
process,
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