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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Subject: Re: wierd new config options
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:26:15 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081111102615.2D2D61541CA@magilla.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Christoph Hellwig's message of  Thursday, 23 October 2008 20:18:18 +0200 <20081023181818.GA25430@lst.de>

> CORE_DUMP_DEFAULT_ELF_HEADERS is similarly odd, it turns something on
> that break old userspace, this really really should be a sysctl to turn
> on instead of a config option.

Both the kconfig help text and the commit's log mention that this is
controlled per-process via /proc/PID/coredump_filter.  The new config
option only changes the boot-time default value to be inherited.


Thanks,
Roland

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-11 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 18:18 Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-23 19:16 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-10-23 19:26   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-23 19:59 ` Rik van Riel
2008-10-23 20:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-11 10:26 ` Roland McGrath [this message]

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