From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267625AbUBTAo1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:44:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267616AbUBTAoB (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:44:01 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:48877 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267658AbUBTAfW (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:35:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:35:19 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Tim Hockin Cc: Jamie Lokier , Jeff Sipek , Linux Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: sysconf - exposing constants to userspace Message-ID: <20040219163519.E22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20040219204820.GC9155@sun.com> <200402191630.47047.jeffpc@optonline.net> <20040220002034.GC5590@mail.shareable.org> <20040220002140.GG9155@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20040220002140.GG9155@sun.com>; from thockin@sun.com on Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:21:41PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Tim Hockin (thockin@sun.com) wrote: > sysctls are all writable (unless I am missing something). A lot of these > things are not really tunables. no, they actually have a mode. some are 0444. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net