Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Kurt Garloff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Diffing in sysctl.c is tricky, using more context is recommended.
> > > suid_dumpable ended up in fs/ instead of kernel/ and the reason
> > > is likely a patch with too little context.
> >
> > It's been in kernel/ since 2.6.13. What will break if we move it?
> >
> > This is security-related. If we move it we risk unsecuring people's
> > machines...
>
> only a very little bit since the default value is "secure", the option
> is to make it "insecure"...
OK, that's a good point.
> but yeah by this time we should just bite the bullet and rename the
> variable rather than move it about
That wouldn't help - we'll still break existing scripts.
crap. I tend to think we leave it where it is - it's only a cosmetic
irritation, isn't it?
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