linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-mm1 violates sandbox feature on linux distribution

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Date:	Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:43:16 -0700
From:	"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@...il.com>
To:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	"Michael Rasenberger" <miraze@....de>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm1 violates sandbox feature on linux distribution

On 10/1/06, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:08:14PM +0000, Michael Rasenberger wrote:
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> > Hello,
> >
> > when building external kernel module on gentoo linux distribution,
> > 2.6.18-mm1 violates gentoo's sandbox feature due to file creation in
> > "as-instr" test in scripts/Kbuild.include. (AFAIK due to removal of
> > revert-x86_64-mm-detect-cfi.patch)
>
> Can you point to to some description of this sandbox feature.
> The error you point out looks pretty generic and should happen
> in several places - so I need to understand what problem I shall
> fix before trying to fix it.
>
> The point is that we have other places where we create temporary files
> so this should not be the only issue.
>
>         Sam

Hi,
   Some generic info supplied to folks who debug for Gentoo.

http://bugday.gentoo.org/sandbox.html

Hope this helps,
Mark
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