From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com, hch@infradead.org, pagg@oss.sgi.com,
erikj@sgi.com, matthltc@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] add task handling notifier
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:03:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080108180309.4ccab28d.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080108141424.de5d8fba.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew wrote:
> What are those (unidentified) add-on features doing at present?
> Patching calls into fork.c/exec.c/exit.c?
Most likely. I suspect we have general agreement and awareness
that such patching is not something that sells well in Linux-land.
And for good reason in my personal view ... such patching by loadable
modules could open the door to compromising the integrity of Linux in
ways that could be dangerous.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.940.382.4214
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-20 13:11 [PATCH 0/4] add task handling notifier Jan Beulich
2007-12-20 22:25 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-12-21 7:36 ` Jan Beulich
2007-12-23 12:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-12-25 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-08 13:38 ` Jan Beulich
2008-01-08 22:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-09 0:03 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2008-01-09 0:31 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-09 2:47 ` Matt Helsley
2008-01-09 3:22 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-09 9:52 ` Jan Beulich
2008-01-09 10:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-09 2:24 ` Matt Helsley
2008-01-09 3:27 ` Matthew Helsley
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