Re: [patch] let CONFIG_SECCOMP default to n

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:31 +0200, andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:32:53PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > as far as I can see Fedora has SECCOMP off for a long time already
> 
> Well, I didn't know about it... Long time can't be more than a few
> months because I was sure in older releases it was enabled because I had
> people running seccomp code on fedora.

hmm I checked my laptop which runs a quite old version

> I never expect it was easy thing to startup the CPUShare project, but
> one thing that I didn't expect however was this kind of behaviour from
> the leading linux vendor, I didn't get a single email of questions and I
> wasn't informed about this, despite they know me perfectly. 

Ehm I wasn't aware all linux vendors in the world owe that to you, or
that you own their kernel configuration

> > if there is overhead, and there is no general use for it (which there
> > isn't really) then it should be off imo.
> 
> I hope the reason was the lack of my last patch. But even in such case
> RH could have turned off the tsc thing immediately themself (they know
> how to patch the kernel no?) or they could have asked me a single
> question about it before turning it off, no?
> 

I have no idea; I don't work there. Also I checked Fedora, not RHEL, and
Fedora is done by the Fedora project, not by Red Hat the company. If you
want to ask them to enable it, you should do so on the fedora-devel
mailing list



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