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Place README, REPORTING-BUGS, SecurityBugs and kernel-parameters
on an user's manual book.

As we'll be numbering the user's manual, remove the manual
numbering from SecurityBugs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
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gdb'ing a non-running kernel currently fails because ``gdb`` (wrongly)
disregards the starting offset for which the kernel is compiled.

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or::

memmap=0x10000$0x18690000

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To only report on the kernel, run ``opreport -l /boot/vmlinux > output_file``

A reset is needed to clear old statistics, which survive a reboot.

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# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-

project = 'Linux Kernel User Documentation'

tags.add("subproject")

latex_documents = [
('index', 'linux-user.tex', 'Linux Kernel User Documentation',
'The kernel development community', 'manual'),
]
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in our notation). This removes the problem of exhausting the
namespace and enables the kernel to automatically create the device
nodes for the slaves on demand using the "devpts" filesystem.

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Linux Kernel User's Documentation
=================================

Contents:

.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
:numbered:

README
reporting-bugs
bug-hunting
oops-tracing
ramoops
initrd
init
dynamic-debug-howto
security-bugs
kernel-parameters
serial-console
braille-console
parport
md
module-signing
sysrq
unicode
vga-softcursor
sysfs-rules
devices
binfmt-misc
mono
java
bad-memory
basic-profiling
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heavily edited for binfmt_misc by Richard Günther
new scripts by Colin J. Watson <[email protected]>
added executable Jar file support by Kurt Huwig <[email protected]>

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disclosed as quickly as possible. Please report security bugs to the
Linux kernel security team.

1) Contact
----------
Contact
-------

The Linux kernel security team can be contacted by email at
<[email protected]>. This is a private list of security officers
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Any exploit code is very helpful and will not be released without
consent from the reporter unless it has already been made public.

2) Disclosure
-------------
Disclosure
----------

The goal of the Linux kernel security team is to work with the
bug submitter to bug resolution as well as disclosure. We prefer
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to a few weeks. As a basic default policy, we expect report date to
disclosure date to be on the order of 7 days.

3) Non-disclosure agreements
----------------------------
Non-disclosure agreements
-------------------------

The Linux kernel security team is not a formal body and therefore unable
to enter any non-disclosure agreements.
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# (source start file, target name, title,
# author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
latex_documents = [
('user/index', 'linux-user.tex', 'Linux Kernel User Documentation',
'The kernel development community', 'manual'),
('kernel-documentation', 'kernel-documentation.tex', 'The Linux Kernel Documentation',
'The kernel development community', 'manual'),
('process/index', 'development-process.tex', 'Linux Kernel Development Documentation',
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2

admin-guide/index
kernel-documentation
process/index
dev-tools/tools
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