On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Tycho, > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 00:04, Tycho Andersen <tycho@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:57:40PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-opages) wrote: >> > Hi Tycho, >> > >> > On 09/27/2018 05:11 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote: >> > > Hi all, >> > > >> > > Here's v7 of the seccomp trap to userspace set. There are various minor >> > > changes and bug fixes, but two major changes: >> > > >> > > * We now pass fds to the tracee via an ioctl, and do it immediately when >> > > the ioctl is called. For this we needed some help from the vfs, so >> > > I've put the one patch in this series and cc'd fsdevel. This does have >> > > the advantage that the feature is now totally decoupled from the rest >> > > of the set, which is itself useful (thanks Andy!) >> > > >> > > * Instead of putting all of the notification related stuff into the >> > > struct seccomp_filter, it now lives in its own struct notification, >> > > which is pointed to by struct seccomp_filter. This will save a lot of >> > > memory (thanks Tyler!) >> > >> > Is there a documentation (man page) patch for this API change? >> >> Not yet, but once we decide on a final API I'll prepare one. > > Honestly, the production of such documentation should be part of the > evolution towards the final API... > > Documentation is not an afterthought. It's a tool for pushing you, the > developer (and others, your reviewers) to more deeply consider your > design. In Tycho's defense, he did write up documentation in Documentation/ for the feature, so it won't be an afterthought. :) But yes, there's no manpage delta yet. -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
