On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:33:57 -0400 Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> How do you know that? > > I will prove that all other write usage is not impacted later. > Except that you can only really do this for programs that you have > access to, and by definition you can not have access to every program > ever written that writes to /proc. > > If you were going to do this, it would need to be itself controlled by > another sysctl to toggle the behavior, which would need to default to > the current behavior. Defending the patch, I can't imagine any user space code expecting the current behavior. The current behavior is that if you write "1\0" it will error out instead of accepting the "1". I can't come up with a scenario that would require userspace to expect "1\0" to fail. Can you? -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
