Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Aug 2019 21:48:41 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 57/59] coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template |
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 09:41:46AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 17:33 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > >> From: Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net> >> >> [ Upstream commit 315c69261dd3fa12dbc830d4fa00d1fad98d3b03 ] > >The patch changes the behaviour of the interface between the Linux >kernel and userspace core dump handlers. The previous behaviour was >unlikely to be depended on by any core dump handler but it is still a >behaviour change, so I think it would be best to keep it out of the >stable branches and would prefer to have folks encounter the change as >Linux distros etc roll out 5.3 and later into their dev releases. > >We discussed this on #kernelnewbies a while ago and gregkh agreed that >it should stew a while longer before reaching any stable releases. > >In addition if it gets backported to stable releases, my patch for >core(5) from man-pages will have to get more complicated :)
I'll just drop it and let Greg deal with it then :)
-- Thanks, Sasha
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