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Message-ID: <m1y7pvinta.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:38:25 -0700 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls. Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at> writes: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at> writes: >> >> > the linux banner needs some attention too, when I get >> > around, I'll send a patch for that ... >> >> In what sense? >> >> I have trouble seeing the banner printed at bootup as being problematic. > > was it removed from procfs after 2.6.19-rc6 > (/proc/version sorry, haven't checked yet) I see where you are coming from. Yes that is a potential issue, because ultimately that information is utsname information. Given that we don't allow any of that information to be changed currently that isn't a 2.6.19 issue. Given that it is a don't care as long as we generate the same string I don't see a problem with a patch to modify it, to track changes in the current uts namespace. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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