lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2010]   [Dec]   [22]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [RFC Patch] kcore: restrict access to the whole memory
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:21:59 +0800
Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> wrote:

> This patch restricts /proc/kcore from accessing the whole memory,
> instead, only an ELF header can be read.
>
> The initial patch was done by Vivek.

Getting a bit tired of this.

Are we supposed to be mind-readers? How else are we to work out why
you think Linux needs this feature? What problems it solves? What
applications are expected to break and what the breakage patterns are?
Why the benefits are worth the maintenance costs and the risk of
breakage? Why it's done with a config option and not a boot-time or
runtime tunable?

c'mon, you guys have been around long enough to understand this stuff.


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2010-12-23 00:05    [W:0.082 / U:0.300 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site