From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] IP: Make ping sockets optional
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:27:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140423162712.GB13717@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398268542.7767.145.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Userspace can't assume it now because access is controlled by a sysctl.
>
> I think it is for distributions to choose whether to enable this feature
> in ping and the kernel.
I am not (yet) buying this argument.
Saying 'you need to change sysctl foo for this to work' in a program manpage
is a lot different than 'you need to recompile the kernel'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 15:20 [RFC][PATCH] IP: Make ping sockets optional Ben Hutchings
2014-04-23 15:30 ` Florian Westphal
2014-04-23 15:55 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-04-23 16:27 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2014-04-24 15:17 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-04-24 16:02 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-04-24 16:37 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-04-25 10:37 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2014-04-25 21:18 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-04-26 3:02 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2014-04-25 21:43 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-04-23 16:05 ` David Laight
2014-04-24 15:59 ` Lorenzo Colitti
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