Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls. | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:38:25 -0700 |
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Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes: >> >> > the linux banner needs some attention too, when I get >> > around, I'll send a patch for that ... >> >> In what sense? >> >> I have trouble seeing the banner printed at bootup as being problematic. > > was it removed from procfs after 2.6.19-rc6 > (/proc/version sorry, haven't checked yet)
I see where you are coming from. Yes that is a potential issue, because ultimately that information is utsname information. Given that we don't allow any of that information to be changed currently that isn't a 2.6.19 issue.
Given that it is a don't care as long as we generate the same string I don't see a problem with a patch to modify it, to track changes in the current uts namespace.
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