Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 22:50:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> But you're thinking like a developer, not a user. The right question > is which approach requires the lowest level of *user* privilege to get > the job done. Comparing world-readable /proc files versus a setuid app, > the answer is obvious. This sort of thing is exactly what /proc is *for*.
Both require the same level of user privilege.
cat /proc/wasteofmemory/dmi | dmidecoder v /sbin/dmidump | dmidecoder
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