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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

  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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