On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:01:46 -0500 > Will Drewry <wad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> With this set, a lot of dangerous operations (chroot, unshare, etc) >> become a lot less dangerous because there is no possibility of >> subverting privileged binaries. > > The changelog doesn't explain the semantics of the new syscall. > There's a comment way-down-there which I guess suffices, if you hunt > for it. > > And the changelog doesn't explain why this is being added. Presumably > seccomp_filter wants/needs this feature but whowhatwherewhenwhy? Spell > it all out, please. > > The new syscall mode will be documented in the prctl manpage. Please > cc linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and work with Michael on getting this > done? This has been bugging me for awhile. Is there any interest in moving the manpages into the kernel source tree? Then there could be a general requirement that new APIs get documented when they're written. (There are plenty of barely- or incompletely-documented syscalls. futex and relatives come to mind.) --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
