From: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] core_pattern: set core helpers root and namespace to crashing process
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:20:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121213122048.GF5246@sergelap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355255996-25953-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Quoting Neil Horman (nhorman@tuxdriver.com):
> Theres one problem I currently see with it, and that is that I'm not sure we can
> change the current behavior of how the root fs is set for the pipe reader, lest
> we break some user space expectations. As such, I've added a sysctl in this
> patch to allow administrators to globally select if a core reader specified via
> /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern should use the global rootfs, or the (possibly)
> chrooted fs of the crashing process.
Practical question: How is the admin to make an educated decision on
how to set the sysctl?
-serge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-11 19:59 [PATCH] core_pattern: set core helpers root and namespace to crashing process Neil Horman
2012-12-13 12:20 ` Serge Hallyn [this message]
2012-12-13 18:12 ` Neil Horman
2012-12-13 22:25 ` Andrew Morton
2012-12-14 2:49 ` Neil Horman
2012-12-14 9:04 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-12-14 21:04 ` [PATCH v2] " Neil Horman
2012-12-14 21:49 ` Andrew Morton
2012-12-14 23:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-12-15 0:50 ` Neil Horman
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