Re: [PATCH] kconfig: consolidate arch-specific seccomp options

[Dave Hansen]

On 01/30/2014 12:55 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> > +	  This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
>> > +	  that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
>> > +	  execution. By using pipes or other transports made available to
> I'd change and simplify the first sentence to:
> 
>> > +	  This kernel feature is useful to sandbox runtimes that need
>> > +	  to execute untrusted machine code.
> Seccomp isn't primarily about number crunching anymore, and it's 
> definitely not about 'bytecode' in the classical sense either.

I'll change that if I need to send it again.  Otherwise, I'll leave it
to the folks who actually know something about the feature, which isn't me.

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