linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <6101e8c40802150857h656efbf9of2646e9ae8c07a5b@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:57:53 +0100
From:	"Oliver Pinter" <oliver.pntr@...il.com>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	"Mikael Pettersson" <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Pavel Emelyanov" <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Al Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysctl a separate filesystem

On 2/15/08, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:
>
> On Feb 15 2008 12:35, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> >Andi Kleen writes:
> > > Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org> writes:
> > > > this subdir;
> > > > 3. sysctl inodes are now smaller than the procfs ones.
> > >
> > > That's always a good thing.
> > >
> > > > Note: update your initscripts to mount sysctl filesystem
> > > > right after the proc is mounted in order not to lose your
> > > > /etc/sysctl.conf configuration (and optionally fstab).
> > >
> > > That will break about everybody's init scripts I suspect.
> > >
> > > I think you would need to go through some deprecation
> > > period for this at least, with printks warning people
> > > to fix their init scripts.
> > >
> > > Or better find some way to do the mount automatically.
> >
> >Doing it automatically is the only acceptable way, IMO.
>
> For time being only.
>
> The kernel (currently) only auto-mounts invisible filesystems.
 and /selinux with selinuxfs, it is automounted ... but it is visible fs


> --
> 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/
>
--
Thanks,
Oliver
--
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/