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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: General flags to turn things off (getrandom, pid lookup, etc)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:35:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140725223550.3153f436@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWGvBfrX1W5XaFgJZhKHLf+oac9YrwPR3ppK=deQtu5hA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:30:48 -0700
Andy Lutomirski <luto-kltTT9wpgjJwATOyAt5JVQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> [new thread because this sort of combines two threads]
> 
> There is recent interest in having a way to turn generally-available
> kernel features off.  Maybe we should add a good one so we can stop
> bikeshedding and avoid proliferating dumb interfaces.

We sort of have one. It's called capable(). Just needs extending to cover
anything else you care about, and probably all the numeric constants
replacing with textual names.

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25 18:30 General flags to turn things off (getrandom, pid lookup, etc) Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-25 20:15 ` Dave Jones
     [not found]   ` <20140725201507.GA23410-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-07-25 20:21     ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found] ` <CALCETrWGvBfrX1W5XaFgJZhKHLf+oac9YrwPR3ppK=deQtu5hA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-07-25 21:35   ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2014-07-25 21:41     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-26 19:48       ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-07-30 14:37       ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-07-25 23:43   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-25 23:54     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-27 12:26   ` David Drysdale
2014-07-27 21:06 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-07-27 22:17   ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]     ` <CALCETrXfzOZEC3mOKkm3_GvitvkEu4kAa3LowRv-fjHnzrQnBg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-07-27 23:53       ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-07-30 14:37         ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-07-30 18:41           ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-07-30 21:29             ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-07-31  2:37               ` Eric W. Biederman

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