From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261693AbULNWdQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:33:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261692AbULNWco (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:32:44 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:11218 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261732AbULNW1v (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:27:51 -0500 Message-ID: <41BF6879.3090900@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:26:01 -0800 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Roland McGrath , Christoph Lameter , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] cpu-timers: high-resolution CPU clocks for POSIX clock_* syscalls References: <200412142150.iBELoJc0011582@magilla.sf.frob.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC818FD6CC6B01DD11220807F" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC818FD6CC6B01DD11220807F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'd vote for > not exposing them any more than necessary (ie the current incidental "ps" > interface is quite enough), at least until somebody can come up with a > very powerful example of why exposing them is a good idea. Indeed. It's so much easier to grant additional rights at a later time than to take something away for whatever reasons. Globally accessible clocks would need to have the semantic carefully defined, SELinux hooks would have to be added etc. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ --------------enigC818FD6CC6B01DD11220807F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBv2h62ijCOnn/RHQRAn4UAJ9TpHpEnEY1HYa9umF5uVM3e96hngCfXXXZ 5C+jr8chehvIj5x60D0DLhg= =Y0Xp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC818FD6CC6B01DD11220807F--