linux-kernel - Re: wierd new config options

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Message-Id: <20081111102615.2D2D61541CA@magilla.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:26:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>
Subject: Re: wierd new config options

> CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is similarly odd, it turns something on
> that break old userspace, this really really should be a sysctl to turn
> on instead of a config option.

Both the kconfig help text and the commit's log mention that this is
controlled per-process via /proc/PID/coredump_filter.  The new config
option only changes the boot-time default value to be inherited.


Thanks,
Roland
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