Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:20:33 -0700 | Subject | Re: taskstats root only breaking iotop |
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > Namespaces came in later, much later after taskstats. I think your > biased and not even thinking about your bias.
Umm. Yes, I'm biased. I'm biased as hell by the fact that I reported the taskstats namespace breakage with a suggested approach to fix it, and never heard back from anybody involved with it.
And yes, you were cc'd on that.
> What was badly designed?
The fact that it had no security what-so-ever? Unlike /proc, which at least has the *structure* for security, even if it then often for historical reasons leaves things a bit too open.
Linus
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