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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>,
	Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PR_SET_SECCOMP and PR_GET_SECCOMP doc (and bug?)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:34:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080617173411.GC28087@duo.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18697.1213719134@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:12:14PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:29 +0200, Michael Kerrisk said:
> > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com> 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 ;).

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-17 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-16 12:15 PR_SET_SECCOMP and PR_GET_SECCOMP doc (and bug?) Michael Kerrisk
2008-06-16 16:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-06-17 13:32   ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-06-17 16:12     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-06-17 17:34       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2008-06-17 17:59         ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-06-17 17:35     ` Andrea Arcangeli

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