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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: add SecBits field to /proc/<PID>/status
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 21:10:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220205031032.GA14228@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d3fc9d9-d99e-a5ab-10a4-7cc60c97e1e@namei.org>

On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 04:32:00AM +1100, James Morris wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2022, Andrew G. Morgan wrote:
> 
> > Securebits strongly influence the way Capabilities work for a process,
> > make them visible in the proc status files.
> 
> My concern is that this might break some existing userspace code which 
> parses the status file.

I don't think anyone should be using that file expecting the fields
in a certain order.  No 'grep "^VmRSS:" /proc/self/status' type of
use is going to be broken by this patch.  Do you have something else
in mind?

-serge

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-05  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-31  5:15 [PATCH] proc: add SecBits field to /proc/<PID>/status Andrew G. Morgan
2022-02-03 17:32 ` James Morris
2022-02-04  4:29   ` Andrew G. Morgan
2022-02-05  3:10   ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]

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