Re: PR_SET_SECCOMP and PR_GET_SECCOMP doc (and bug?)

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:12:14PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> 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

Yes, makes sense to me ;).
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