Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] landlock.7: Document Landlock ABI v2 (file reparenting; Linux 5.19)

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hello Günther!

On 3/5/23 11:24, Günther Noack wrote:
> +landlock mailing list (feeback welcome)
> 
> Hello!
> 
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 06:16:06PM +0100, Günther Noack wrote:
>> * Add LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER to the code example.
> 
> To follow up on the discussion on the man page update v1 [1] -- let me
> make a constructive proposal for a simpler code example for "best
> effort" fallback in the man page.
> 
> I feel that implementing the full generic "best effort" fallback logic
> would complicate the example too much:
> 
>  (a) examples that try to demonstrate too many things at once
>      tend to become confusing to the reader
>  (b) there are readers to whom the full example might not matter:
>      - readers who know what kernel their software runs on
>      - readers in the future or on cutting-edge distributions
>        who can assume that their kernel is likely to be fresh enough

I prefer if examples assume latest and greatest kernel.

Examples of how to support old kernels would be good in complete
tutorials, but over-complicate a short example.

Cheers,

Alex

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