From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262905AbUGFDbg (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:31:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262927AbUGFDbg (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:31:36 -0400 Received: from smtp-roam.Stanford.EDU ([171.64.10.152]:20119 "EHLO smtp-roam.Stanford.EDU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262905AbUGFDbf (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 23:31:35 -0400 Message-ID: <40EA1D14.6070100@myrealbox.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:31:32 -0700 From: Andy Lutomirski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x References: <20040703202242.GA31656@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <20040703202541.GA11398@infradead.org> <20040703133556.44b70d60.akpm@osdl.org> <20040703210407.GA11773@infradead.org> <20040703143558.5f2c06d6.akpm@osdl.org> <20040704213527.GV12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040704145542.4d1723f5.akpm@osdl.org> <20040704221302.GW12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040704154303.4eb0fbaf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040704154303.4eb0fbaf.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >>Why on the earth do we ever want to allow chown/chmod on procfs in the first >>place? [...] > > As for why anyone would _want_ to change these things: no idea. Because I don't want the whole world reading my conntrack state. And I'm sure other people have other opinions there and on other things, so that's why we should be able to change it. --Andy