netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCHES] iov

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Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2014 21:23:58 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHES] iov_iter.c rewrite

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 11:01:41AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill@...temov.name> wrote:
> >
> > trinity triggers it for me in few minutes. I will try find out more once
> > get some time.
> 
> You run trinity as *root*?
> 
> You're a brave man. Stupid, but brave ;)
> 
> I guess you're running it in a VM, but still.. Doing random system
> calls as root sounds like a bad bad idea.

I'm doing this for a long time and didn't see any problem bigger than qemu
crash[1]. ;)

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/194845/

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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