Re: [PATCH] pkeys: Introduce PKEY_ALLOC_SIGNALINHERIT and change signal semantics

On 05/03/2018 01:38 AM, Ram Pai wrote:

This is a new requirement that I was not aware off. Its not documented
anywhere AFAICT.

Correct.  All inheritance behavior was deliberately left unspecified.

I'm surprised about the reluctance to fix the x86 behavior.  Are there 
any applications at all for the current semantics?

I guess I can implement this particular glibc hardening on POWER only 
for now.

Thanks,
Florian