Re: [PATCH] kernel: Conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities

[One Thousand Gnomes]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:33:08 +0200
Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their functionality
> in init, running as root:root. For these systems, supporting multiple users is
> not necessary.

We probably shouldn't encourage such poor design ;-)

The proposed patch generates a whole mass of ifdefs all over the place.
If it's going to be done move all the functions in question together
somewhere logical and give them a single ifdef or a file of their own.

It also doesn't appear to be dropping all it should - why can't you
simply not compile in groups.c for example ? If you can't then it says
the patch is far from complete at this point.

Alan

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