13 Dec
2023
13 Dec
'23
12:39 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 15:17, jeffxu@chromium.org wrote:
+**types**: bit mask to specify the sealing types, they are:
I really want a real-life use-case for more than one bit of "don't modify".
IOW, when would you *ever* say "seal this area, but MADV_DONTNEED is ok"?
Or when would you *ever* say "seal this area, but mprotect()" is ok.
IOW, I want to know why we don't just do the BSD immutable thing, and why we need this multi-level sealing thing.
Linus