Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 1999 05:23:44 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: New raw IO patches available for 2.2, 2.3 |
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Hi,
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:22:55 +0100 (GMT), Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> said:
> Please could you have the /dev/raw RAW_SETBIND ioctl require > CAP_SYS_ADMIN?
That is the _only_ thing which /dev/raw is there for. We already go through the VFS permissions layer in this case --- do we really need another permissions check internally?
If you really want such a check, I'll certainly accept patches!
--Stephen
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