Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:26:01 -0800 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] cpu-timers: high-resolution CPU clocks for POSIX clock_* syscalls |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'd vote for > not exposing them any more than necessary (ie the current incidental "ps" > interface is quite enough), at least until somebody can come up with a > very powerful example of why exposing them is a good idea.
Indeed. It's so much easier to grant additional rights at a later time than to take something away for whatever reasons.
Globally accessible clocks would need to have the semantic carefully defined, SELinux hooks would have to be added etc.
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