Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-02-04 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:12:01 +, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that > enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may > make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducabili

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:46 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:11:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > so, i'm glad to report, it's a non-issue. Sometimes developers want to > > disable randomisation during development (quick'n'easy hacks get quicker > > and easier - e.g. if

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:11:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > so, i'm glad to report, it's a non-issue. Sometimes developers want to > > disable randomisation during development (quick'n'easy hacks get quicker > > and easier - e.g. if you watch a

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:11:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > so, i'm glad to report, it's a non-issue. Sometimes developers want to > disable randomisation during development (quick'n'easy hacks get quicker > and easier - e.g. if you watch an address within gdb), so having the > capability f

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that > > enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may > > make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducability goes > > down), the s

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that > enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may > make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducability goes > down), the sysadmin needs a way to disable it globally. Well, for d

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 11:36 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that > > enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may > > make it harder to debug really tricky

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Andi Kleen
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that > enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may > make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducability goes > down), the sysadmin needs a

Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

2005-01-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
This first patch of the series introduces a sysctl (default off) that enables/disables the randomisation feature globally. Since randomisation may make it harder to debug really tricky situations (reproducability goes down), the sysadmin needs a way to disable it globally. Signed-off-by: Arjan va