Re: RFD: Non-Disruptive Core Dump Infrastructure

[Andi Kleen]

> Briefly -- we will implement the CRIU service, which is a daemon running from
> root and listening on a unix socket. When a task wants to dump himself, it sends 
> to the service a "dump me" message. The service then goes and dumps the process.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if the dump file is then readable by
the process and includes the output of the new interfaces
any potential security leaks exposed by the new interfaces would 
be already there for unpriv. users?

-Andi

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