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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: York Jasper Niebuhr <yjnworkstation@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exitz syscall
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 14:24:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231111132431.GA3717@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231111125126.11665-1-yjnworkstation@gmail.com>

Hello,

On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 01:51:26PM +0100, York Jasper Niebuhr wrote:
> Adds a system call to flag a process' resources to be cleared on
> exit (or, in the case of memory, on free). Currently, only zeroing
> memory is implemented.
(...)

IMHO it does not make sense to add a syscall for this, please have a
look at prctl(2) instead, which is already used for similar settings.

Regards,
Willy

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-11 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-11 12:51 [PATCH] exitz syscall York Jasper Niebuhr
2023-11-11 13:24 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2023-11-12  1:24   ` Linus Torvalds
2023-11-13  0:08     ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-11-12  4:52   ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-11-13  7:37     ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-11-19 14:54       ` Jasper Niebuhr

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