Eric Paris wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 11:28 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:58:38AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
>> Would anyone have a problem carrying this patch in fedora? This would
>> be a forever fedora'ism.
>>
> Wouldn't it be better to just use sysctl in an init script to turn it on
> during boot (or, optionally, not.) as opposed to carrying a patch
> perpetually?
I actually talked to the sysctl.conf owner first who said "if it is a
good default for everyone turn it on in the kernel"
which i tended to agree with. But I like Eric's way of enabling it
better, especially since now every distro will have to choose to
enable/disable rather than just having it ignorable.
Having a sysctl to change it post-boot if desired may also still make
sense, though? I guess it's sort of analogous to how selinux can be
KConfig'd in certain ways, and later modified runtime.
-Eric