On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 19:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:49:37PM +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > A slowdown by a factor of 4 is a high price to pay for the impact of > > > RemoveSUID. I'd rather pay at most 30%, and not a factor of 4. > > That's the extreme corner case, caused by bug in tmpfs (lack > > of filecaps?). Upstream kernel bug, I would say. > > Lack of a feature isn't a bug. Not to be an antagonist, but I still see no rational reason to remove setuid and replace it with this alternative implementation wholesale at this time. UNIX got away with setuid for a *long* time, and I'm sure we could have managed for another year (or 30) without a big switchover. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
