Re: procfs permissions on 2.6.x

[Andy Lutomirski]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Why on the earth do we ever want to allow chown/chmod on procfs in the first
> > place?

[...]

> As for why anyone would _want_ to change these things: no idea.

Because I don't want the whole world reading my conntrack state.  And 
I'm sure other people have other opinions there and on other things, so 
that's why we should be able to change it.

--Andy

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