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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:10:25 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
CC: Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/8] seccomp: add system call filtering using BPF

On 02/16/2012 04:51 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> IMO the best solution is to have the One True Seccomp Filter Compiler
> (tm).  It would handle multiple namespaces, cross-arch differences,
> and such, and it would do it correctly.  It could live in the kernel
> tree.
> 
> Without something like that or an incredible amount of special care,
> actual portability is probably a pipe dream.
> 
> --Andy
> 

Seconded!

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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