On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:29 +0200, Michael Kerrisk said: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:15:13PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> PR_GET_SECCOMP (since Linux 2.6.23) > >> Return the secure computing mode of the calling thread. > >> Not very useful: if the caller is not in secure computing > >> mode, this operation returns 0; if the caller is in secure > >> computing mode, then the prctl() call will cause a SIGKILL > >> signal to be sent to the process. This operation is only > >> available if the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SECCOMP > >> enabled. Would it make sense to change the text to read "Not very useful for the current implementation of mode=1" and/or add that it may be useful for future modes that allow prctl() modes other than 1?
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