Re: [PATCH] remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable()

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From: Arjan van de Ven

Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable()

Date: Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 8:36 am

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:04:31 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:

quoted text> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> 
> remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable()
> 
> Commit 6c5d5238 introduced a set_dumpable() function that replaced
> the direct access to mm_struct->dumpable. I don't think there is any
> reason to restrict this function to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() -- previously
> any module could modify current->mm->dumpable without any
> resitrictions, so it makes a little sense to turn this into 'internal
> interface' at once.
> 

but modules really have no business setting process's dumpable flags...
other than very internal modules.
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[PATCH] remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable(), Jiri Kosina, (Sun Oct 14, 4:04 am)

Re: [PATCH] remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable(), Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Oct 14, 8:36 am)

Re: [PATCH] remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable(), Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Oct 14, 2:03 pm)

Re: [PATCH] remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable(), Jiri Kosina, (Sun Oct 14, 2:14 pm)


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