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SubjectRe: Another backdoor to secure mode
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[IOPL]
>>The problem is: X windows needs these calls, so if you forbid them in
>>secure mode then bye bye X.

Is there any technical reason why we can't have the full 8k I/O permission
bitmap? Can't we allocate them only when the process first calls ioperm()
and saves the 2k for each process instead?

Stephen


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