Messages in this thread | | | From | "Peter T. Breuer" <> | Subject | Re: disk-destroyer.c | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:12:20 +0200 (MET DST) |
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"A month of sundays ago Andre Hedrick wrote:" > The method to kill linux is out, the patch to stop it is gone.
I'm just slow. Only root can do this trick?
I'm not against the patch, it just seems wholly unnecessary to me, and even downright dangerous at this stage of proceedings. How do you know you aren't introducing bugs or some holes that weren't there before?
The real problem here has been andre's weirdly confused descriptions .. what's gone wrong with your grammar and vocab, andre? I could hardly understand a whole sentence, if there was one to be found! I'm sure you can do better at describing the problem. From what I can gather, some parameters are sometimes dangerous in some ioctls. Does this depend on the disk state? Is that what makes it difficult to filter them out of the ioctl? Or is it that the danger does not depend on disk state, but the rules to determine if the parameters are dangerous or not are complicated?
Peter
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