Re: [PATCH] coredump_filter: enable to change the default filter

[Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>]

Hi,

I'm sorry for late reply.

Roland McGrath wrote:

>>However, we would need a special care for PID namespace if we use
>>init's coredump_filter as default.  For a process with new PID
>>namespace and new /proc, writing to /proc/1/coredump_filter doesn't
>>mean changing default, although it's not a usual operation.
> 
> I'd figured that private PID namespaces with their own init would want
> their own private settings for this default too.

Probably it's true, but I'm not sure if having coredump_filter have
two means is acceptable.  init in a private PID namespace can die
and dump a core file.  So its coredump_filter has two means; default
setting for the namespace and setting for itself.  
 
Thanks,
-- 
Hidehiro Kawai
Hitachi, Systems Development Laboratory
Linux Technology Center