abrt not working in current Rawhide?

Neil Horman nhorman at redhat.com
Thu Jan 28 12:02:36 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:55:47AM +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
> On 01/28/2010 02:03 AM, Neil Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:46:33PM +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
> >> Unfortunately it doesn't because of this:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557386
> >>
> >> Jirka
> >>
> > Bear in mind, Abrt could have fixed this any time in the past few weeks, they've
> > just chosen not to.  Jiri, you and I agreed that you would pursue a user space
> > correction for this that I laid out for you if I proposed a kernel space
> > solution. I can't help but notice you seem to have tossed that asside. 
> > Neil
> > 
> 
> Yes, I decided not to implement it, because I discussed the proposed
> solution with few other engineers and nobody likes it and the
> security/selinux guys wouldn't like it also. Please don't take me wrong,
> the solution you've proposed is just a few lines of code, so it's not a
> big problem to write it, but it's just a temporary workaround and would
> require changing the selinux policy and to make it work fine. We can
> take a vote and if there is enough people to support it then I' write
> it, but I don't writing something to /proc/<pid>/ is a good idea.
> 
> Jirka

Well, thanks for comming to a conclusion about this without bothering to bring
it back up with me, thats fantastic.  The bottom line is, you saw that I was
willing to try do what you wanted me to do, and concluded that you didn't need
to do what I had asked you to do.  Thats a lousy way to behave.
Neil
 


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