Re: [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

> Andrew should I toss all 100 or so patches over the wall to you
> and your -mm tree?  Or should I maintain a public git tree based
> at 2.6.31-rc1?  Get it into linux-next and ask Linus to pull it when
> the merge window comes?

What do these 100 odd patches do exactly? 

I think DEFINE_SYSCTL()/ELF section would be the correct direction to go
for all global variable sysctls.

Then the binary sysctls could be handled by a global table
in a separate file like you described

[My old patch back then also had a sysctl_name() syscall to still
allow changing sysctl without mounting /proc, but that wasn't 
very popular]

For dynamically generated sysctls (relatively rare but there) 
the current interfaces are not great, but could be probably kept.

That all doesn't really need 100 patches though.

-Andi

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