Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting David Newall (david@davidnewall.com): > >> Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >> >>> Quoting David Newall (david@davidnewall.com): >>> >>> >>>> It might be tidy if pivot_root could be used ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Sep 25 2007 - 09:58

Gustavo Chain wrote: > El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:14:06 +0930 > David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> escribió: > >> Gustavo Chain ... 2007 11:19:27 +0930 >>> David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> escribió: >>> >>> >>>> Gustavo Chain ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Oct 10 2007 - 10:13

... Engelhardt wrote: > On Sep 26 2007 01:11, David Newall wrote: > >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >>> On Sep 26 2007 00:40, David Newall wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Miloslav Semler pointed out that a root process can chdir("..") out ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Sep 25 2007 - 16:51

David Newall wrote: > David Newall wrote: >> Jaroslav Sykora wrote: >>> Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world >>> program source >>> code. We want to do this: >>> cat hello.zip^/hello.c ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Oct 18 2007 - 12:53

... , Jan 20, 2008 at 03:16:25PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > >> Andi Kleen wrote: >> >>> On ... Jan 20, 2008 at 12:57:29PM +1030, David Newall wrote: >>> >>> >>>> compatibility. This is a sleeping giant for Linux. There are plenty of ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Jan 20 2008 - 01:33

David Miller wrote: > From: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:13:07 +1030 >> David Miller wrote: >> >>> From: Jan Engelhardt >>> Date: Fri, 21 ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Dec 21 2007 - 11:37

... On Sunday 16 March 2008 20:59, david@lang.hm wrote: > >> On Sun, 16 ... On Sunday 16 March 2008 18:31, David Newall wrote: >>> >>>> Daniel Phillips wrote: >>>> ... no loss of data. Then you ignored David's point about the relatively low ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Mar 17 2008 - 03:14

Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting David Newall (david@davidnewall.com): > >> It might be tidy if pivot_root could be used (instead of a hack based on a >> chroot bug), but it'd still be unportable. >> ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Sep 25 2007 - 03:45

Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:05:07 +0930 > David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> wrote: >> Alan Cox wrote: >> >>>> Marek's loading dynamic libraries, it seems clear that the prime purpose >>>> ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Sep 25 2007 - 19:50

Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:04:14 +0930 > David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> wrote: > >> Al Viro wrote: >> >>> Oh, for fsck sake... Folks, it's standard-required behaviour. Ability >>> ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Sep 26 2007 - 07:22

Gustavo Chain wrote: > El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:19:27 +0930 > David Newall <david@davidnewall.com> escribió: > >> Gustavo Chain wrote: >> >>> I think it's necessary to reserve some pids to the super user. ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Oct 10 2007 - 01:44

David Miller wrote: > From: David Newall > Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:17:14 +1030 > > >> Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >>> Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: >>> >>>> Strange, but there ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Feb 1 2008 - 02:07

Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi David, > > On Feb 3, 2008 5:12 PM, David Newall wrote: > >> By the way, I'm almost certain that the COPYING file is the first, last >> and only ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Feb 3 2008 - 12:06

David Brownell wrote: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008, David Newall wrote: > >> Hardware can be inserted and removed while we're in a suspend state; and >> there's nothing that we can do ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Feb 26 2008 - 09:36

Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sep 26 2007 00:40, David Newall wrote: > >> Miloslav Semler pointed out that a root process can chdir("..") out of its >> chroot. > So what? Just do this: chdir into ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Sep 25 2007 - 11:41

David Newall wrote: > Jaroslav Sykora wrote: >> Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world >> program source >> code. We want to do this: >> cat hello.zip^/hello.c >> gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello >> etc ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Oct 18 2007 - 12:33

Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:07:45AM +0930, David Newall wrote: > >>> considerations of this whole scheme. Linux, like most Unix systems, >>> has never allowed hard links to directories for a ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Oct 18 2007 - 22:57

H. Peter Anvin wrote: > David Newall wrote: >> Where did the 8us delay come from? The documentation and source is >> careful not to say how long the delay is. Would changing it to, say >> 1us, be technically wrong? ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Dec 10 2007 - 21:42

Mark Lord wrote: > David Newall wrote: >> Mark Lord wrote: >>> But.. pity there's no mount flag override for smaller systems, >>> where bind mounts might be more useful with link(2) actually working. >> >> I don't see it. ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Dec 19 2007 - 14:38

Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2007-12-23 07:06:58, David Newall wrote: > >> It's kind of hard to run anything over SSH if it has to be run before >> userspace is up. But the kernel can collect results from a ...

linux-kernel - David Newall - Dec 23 2007 - 03:35