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SubjectRe: New raw IO patches available for 2.2, 2.3
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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