From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758690AbWK1Pkp (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:40:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758691AbWK1Pkp (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:40:45 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:15338 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758690AbWK1Pko (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:40:44 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Herbert Poetzl Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Containers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls. References: <20061127202211.GB26108@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <20061128143250.GA23131@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:38:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20061128143250.GA23131@MAIL.13thfloor.at> (Herbert Poetzl's message of "Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:32:50 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Herbert Poetzl writes: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Herbert Poetzl 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. Eric