From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls.
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:21:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061128162156.GF23131@MAIL.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1y7pvinta.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:38:25AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> writes:
> >>
> >> > the linux banner needs some attention too, when I get
> >> > around, I'll send a patch for that ...
> >>
> >> In what sense?
> >>
> >> I have trouble seeing the banner printed at bootup as being problematic.
> >
> > was it removed from procfs after 2.6.19-rc6
> > (/proc/version sorry, haven't checked yet)
>
> I see where you are coming from. Yes that is a potential issue,
> because ultimately that information is utsname information.
> Given that we don't allow any of that information to be changed
> currently that isn't a 2.6.19 issue.
>
> Given that it is a don't care as long as we generate the same string
> I don't see a problem with a patch to modify it, to track changes in
> the current uts namespace.
thank you very much,
Herbert
> Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-28 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-27 4:59 Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-27 5:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] sysctl: Simplify sysctl_uts_string Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-27 5:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] sysctl: Implement sysctl_uts_string Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-27 5:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] sysctl: Simplify ipc ns specific sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-29 4:56 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-11-27 5:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] sysctl: Fix sys_sysctl interface of ipc sysctls Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-27 20:22 ` [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls Herbert Poetzl
2006-11-27 22:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-28 14:32 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-11-28 15:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-11-28 16:21 ` Herbert Poetzl [this message]
2006-12-04 22:32 ` [PATCH] Fix linux banner utsname information Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-05 17:24 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-06 18:32 ` Herbert Poetzl
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