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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Ok, consider the x86 bits NAK-ed, which is lifted if the text is 
updated as well.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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