Neil Horman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 06:40:43PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: >> Neil Horman wrote: [...] >> You may want to improve your patches with style-related changes, including >> removing trailing spaces, using tabs instead of spaces, and defining pointers >> like char *ptr instead of char * ptr. >> > I assume this is just a general comment, since as far as I can see, I've > followed those guidelines.
Please see the next few emails. >> Also, it is probably good to think how we can "drop privileges" while piping >> the core dump output to an external program. A malicious user can potentially >> use it as a possible backdoor since anything that is executed by "|program" >> will >> be executed with root privileges. >> > It was my understanding that apport already did this. I haven't looked at apport yet, but are you talking about the userspace portion of apport or the kernel changes in the Ubuntu kernel? Eugene - 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/