linux-kernel - Re: kernel.org tarball/patch signature files

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Message-ID: <15483.1319534028@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:13:48 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel.org tarball/patch signature files

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:27:05 +0200, "H. Peter Anvin" said:

> It would be a very good thing for people to develop tools to run
> compressors and decompressors in locked-down boxes.  It should be
> possible to run these kinds of programs without access to either network
> or filesystem; only read from stdin and out on stdout (and presumably
> stderr for errors.)  This would solve problems for much more than just
> kernel.org.

Wasn't there once a kernel hack called seccomp, that only allowed read syscalls
on stdin and writes on stdout and that was it? ;)


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