linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] fork: Add the ability to create tasks with given pids

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Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:26:36 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Pedro Alves <pedro@...esourcery.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] fork: Add the ability to create tasks with
	given pids

On 11/23, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> I see.  So, let's do it for root for now and later add finer grained
> CAP as necessary/viable.

Agreed.

Stupid off-topic question, I am just curious... Why /proc/sys
dislikes chmod ? I do not understand this code, but it seems
that it would be simple to change proc_sys_setattr() to respect
ATTR_MODE and update PROC_I(inode)->sysctl_entry->mode, no?

> Pavel, what do you think?

Yes...

Oleg.

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