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Message-ID: <20080617173411.GC28087@duo.random> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:34:11 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>, Ivana Varekova <varekova@...hat.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: PR_SET_SECCOMP and PR_GET_SECCOMP doc (and bug?) On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:12:14PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:29 +0200, Michael Kerrisk said: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:15:13PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > >> PR_GET_SECCOMP (since Linux 2.6.23) > > >> Return the secure computing mode of the calling thread. > > >> Not very useful: if the caller is not in secure computing > > >> mode, this operation returns 0; if the caller is in secure > > >> computing mode, then the prctl() call will cause a SIGKILL > > >> signal to be sent to the process. This operation is only > > >> available if the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SECCOMP > > >> enabled. > > Would it make sense to change the text to read "Not very useful for the > current implementation of mode=1" and/or add that it may be useful for Yes, makes sense to me ;). -- 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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