linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] coredump: core dump masking support v2

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:36:34 +0900
From:	"Kawai, Hidehiro" <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>
To:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, pavel@....cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@...achi.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Satoshi OSHIMA <soshima@...hat.com>,
	"Hideo AOKI@...hat" <haoki@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] coredump: core dump masking support v2

Hi Robin,

Robin Holt wrote:
> Can you make this a little more transparent?  Having a magic bitmask does
> not seem like the best way to do stuff.  Could you maybe make a core_flags
> directory with a seperate file for each flag.  It could still map to a
> single field in the mm, but be broken out for the proc filesystem.

It seems to be one of the good enhancement idea, thanks.:-)
But currently, there is only one flag. So we had better keep this simple
implementation until someone requests to add a new flag.

Thanks,
-- 
Hidehiro Kawai
Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory



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