From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: PR_SET_SECCOMP and PR_GET_SECCOMP doc (and bug?) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:34:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20080617173411.GC28087@duo.random> References: <48565951.40603@gmail.com> <20080616162543.GA9552@duo.random> <18697.1213719134@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18697.1213719134-+bZmOdGhbsPr6rcHtW+onFJE71vCis6O@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Valdis.Kletnieks-PjAqaU27lzQ@public.gmane.org Cc: Michael Kerrisk , Ivana Varekova , lkml , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:12:14PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks-PjAqaU27lzQ@public.gmane.org wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:29 +0200, Michael Kerrisk said: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:15:13PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > >> PR_GET_SECCOMP (since Linux 2.6.23) > > >> Return the secure computing mode of the calling thread. > > >> Not very useful: if the caller is not in secure computing > > >> mode, this operation returns 0; if the caller is in secure > > >> computing mode, then the prctl() call will cause a SIGKILL > > >> signal to be sent to the process. This operation is only > > >> available if the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SECCOMP > > >> enabled. > > Would it make sense to change the text to read "Not very useful for the > current implementation of mode=1" and/or add that it may be useful for Yes, makes sense to me ;). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html