Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:48:43 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] proc: add "personality" to process status file |
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 17:42:33 -0700 Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:42:39PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 15:02:20 -0700 > > Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> wrote: > > > Nothing else seemed appropriate, but I could make a brand new proc > > > file, if that's sensible. "status_private" ? > > > > how about a file called "personality" that has each set bit as an > > ascii version ? > > (one per line maybe) > > Well, it's a one-to-many due to how the personality types are defined, > so doing a bitfield-to-ASCII-names conversion wouldn't really work > out: > > PER_SCOSVR3 = 0x0003 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | > WHOLE_SECONDS | SHORT_INODE, > PER_OSR5 = 0x0003 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | > WHOLE_SECONDS, ... > PER_BSD = 0x0006, > PER_SUNOS = 0x0006 | STICKY_TIMEOUTS, > > But I can certainly just make it a stand-alone file with just the > bitfield. Or, I can still do the conversion and ignore PER_OSR5 and > PER_SUNOS.
well.. if "you" as kernel can't really make out what it is, how is poor userspace supposed to do it ?
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