Re: [PATCH 4/7] allow killing tasks in your own or child userns

From: Bastian Blank
Date: Fri Jan 14 2011 - 09:50:10 EST


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 01:31:52AM +0000, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Bastian Blank (bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > What is this flag used for anyway? I only see it used in the accounting
> > stuff, and if every user can get it, it is not longer useful.
> hm, I'm not sure... maybe noone is using it!

This flag is from pre-git.

The only information is:
| #define ASU 0x02 /* ... used super-user privileges */

However with your patches (or at least the goal), everyone is super-user
in derived namespaces.

Bastian

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