From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [patch] sched_[set|get]_affinity() syscall, 2.4.15-pre9
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:11:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011122181125.S1308@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111220951240.2446-300000@localhost.localdomain> <1006472754.1336.0.camel@icbm> <E16744i-0004zQ-00@localhost> <1006476685.1331.9.camel@icbm>
In-Reply-To: <1006476685.1331.9.camel@icbm>; from rml@tech9.net on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 07:51:22PM -0500
On Nov 22, 2001 19:51 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> I would suggest letting users set their own affinity (since it only
> lessens what they can do) and let a capability dictate if non-root users
> can set other user's tasks affinities. CAP_SYS_ADMIN would do fine.
Rather use something else, like CAP_SYS_NICE. It ties in with the idea
of scheduling, and doesn't further abuse the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability.
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, while it has a good name, has become the catch-all of
capabilities, and if you have it, it is nearly the keys to the kingdom,
just like root.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-23 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-22 8:59 [patch] sched_[set|get]_affinity() syscall, 2.4.15-pre9 Ingo Molnar
2001-11-22 20:22 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-11-22 23:45 ` Robert Love
2001-11-23 0:20 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-23 0:36 ` Mark Hahn
2001-11-23 11:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-24 22:44 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-11-23 0:51 ` Robert Love
2001-11-23 1:11 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-11-23 1:16 ` Robert Love
2001-11-23 11:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-24 2:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-11-27 3:39 ` Robert Love
2001-11-27 7:13 ` Joe Korty
2001-11-27 20:53 ` Robert Love
2001-11-27 21:31 ` Nathan Dabney
2001-11-27 8:04 ` procfs bloat, syscall bloat [in reference to cpu affinity] Joe Korty
2001-11-27 11:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-27 20:56 ` Robert Love
2001-11-27 14:04 ` Phil Howard
2001-11-27 18:05 ` Tim Hockin
2001-11-27 8:40 ` [patch] sched_[set|get]_affinity() syscall, 2.4.15-pre9 Ingo Molnar
2001-11-27 4:41 ` a nohup-like interface to cpu affinity Linux maillist account
2001-11-27 4:49 ` Robert Love
2001-11-27 6:32 ` Linux maillist account
2001-11-27 6:39 ` Robert Love
2001-11-27 8:42 ` Sean Hunter
2001-12-06 1:35 ` Matthew Dobson
2001-12-06 1:37 ` [RFC][PATCH] cpus_allowed/launch_policy patch, 2.4.16 Matthew Dobson
2001-12-06 2:08 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-06 2:17 ` Matthew Dobson
2001-12-06 2:39 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-06 2:42 ` Robert Love
2001-12-06 22:21 ` Matthew Dobson
2001-11-27 6:50 ` a nohup-like interface to cpu affinity Linux maillist account
2001-11-27 8:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-11-23 11:02 ` [patch] sched_[set|get]_affinity() syscall, 2.4.15-pre9 Ingo Molnar
[not found] <1006832357.1385.3.camel@icbm.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <5.0.2.1.2.20011127020817.009ed3d0@pop.mindspring.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-11-27 7:32 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-27 21:01 ` Robert Love
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