Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline

Måns Rullgård
2014-04-03T10:43:10Z

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Which doesn't really protect you from tasks that do open()/write()/close()
>> cycle for /dev/kmsg write every 2ms though.
>
> I don't think we should try to protect against wilful bad behavior
> unless that is shown to be necessary. Yeah, if it turns out that
> systemd really does that just to mess with us, we'd need to extend it,
> but in the absence of proof to the contrary, maybe this simple
> attached patch works?

Once is an accident. Twice is incompetence. Three times is malice.

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