On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:36 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that > > enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may > > make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducability goes > > down), the sysadmin needs a way to disable it globally. > > A global sysctl doesn't make much sense to me for this. If you > want to get some program running you don't want to impact your > system daemons. And a non root user couldn't enable it anyways, > which can be annoying if it is needed to get some binary working. > > If anything I would make it a personality flag so that it can > be set per process.
I actually wanted both; eg a global "whack it off" and a per process flag for all the reasons you state. I have no objection to remove the global "whack it off" flag, however, for testing this stuff in -mm it might be useful to have a simple "turn it off" option. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
