On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:07:45 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > mode=2 to disk _should_ break, is my point. And my point is that we should at least tell people that we broke it. I don't believe that returning an EINVAL from the write() is sufficient. Because it introduces a high risk that people will run misconfigured systems for lengthy periods and it will cause them to have to do a *lot* of work once they discover that their system is misbehaving. So if we really really must instabreak back-compatibility, we should shout loudly into syslog about it: tell people that their system is broken and tell them what to do about it. And we should explain and justify this extraordinary action in the patch changelog. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
