Why unprivileged user cannot set SECBIT_NOROOT etc. via prctl?

From: Kant
Date: Mon Mar 05 2012 - 15:25:58 EST


Is there any reason why this shouldn't be allowed? It seems incredibly
stupid that you first have to gain privileges to be able to do this.
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