Re: Patch 1/6 introduce sysctl

[Andi Kleen]

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 way to disable it globally.

A global sysctl doesn't make much sense to me for this. If you
want to get some program running you don't want to impact your
system daemons. And a non root user couldn't enable it anyways,
which can be annoying if it is needed to get some binary working.

If anything I would make it a personality flag so that it can
be set per process.

-Andi
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