On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Josh Boyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'd be amenable to switching the default back to y and perhaps adding >>> a sysctl to make the distros more comfortable. Ingo, Kees, Brian, >>> what do you think? >> >> Can you please leave the default as N, and have a sysctl option to >> enable it instead? While dosemu might still be in use, it isn't going >> to be the common case at all. So from a distro perspective, I think >> we'd probably rather have the default match the common case. > > Linus will say the default must not break existing userspace...
Yeah, I guess. Which is weird when it's already N in his tree and we're talking about a config option that is explicitly there to disable things. Something will be broken if it's toggled, but oh well. josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
