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Message-ID: <CALCETrWB2ZBnqRtf=1VU9urYxgtgPYNfXy-y=BmhGXi032mhFg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Nov 2014 07:39:22 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>
Subject: Re: kdbus: add documentation

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> Then find a clean way that's gated on having the right /proc access,
> which is not guaranteed to exist on all of your eventual users'
> systems, and, if that access doesn't exist because the admin or
> sandbox designer has sensibly revoked it, then kdbus shouldn't
> override them.

One idea: add a sysctl that defaults to off that enables these
metadata items, and keep it disabled on production systems.  Then you
get your debugging and everyone else gets unsurprising behavior.

--Andy

>
> --Andy



-- 
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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