From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757565Ab1ANOuI (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:50:08 -0500 Received: from wavehammer.waldi.eu.org ([82.139.201.20]:47434 "EHLO wavehammer.waldi.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751539Ab1ANOuD (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:50:03 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:50:01 +0100 From: Bastian Blank To: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, kernel list , LSM Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns Message-ID: <20110114145001.GB20945@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bastian Blank , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, kernel list , LSM References: <20110110211135.GA22446@mail.hallyn.com> <20110110211334.GD22564@mail.hallyn.com> <20110110215240.GA21351@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> <20110110225151.GA18944@localhost> <20110110232335.GA27029@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> <20110111013152.GA23860@mail.hallyn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110111013152.GA23860@mail.hallyn.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 01:31:52AM +0000, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Bastian Blank (bastian@waldi.eu.org): > > What is this flag used for anyway? I only see it used in the accounting > > stuff, and if every user can get it, it is not longer useful. > hm, I'm not sure... maybe noone is using it! This flag is from pre-git. The only information is: | #define ASU 0x02 /* ... used super-user privileges */ However with your patches (or at least the goal), everyone is super-user in derived namespaces. Bastian -- Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1