Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 12:35:36 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> binary may have bugs, security holes, race conditions etc; it may be > hacked post boot (no so easy to do to the live kernel image), etc
Just like the kernel, only the binary is a little less dangerous. Hacking live kernel images is trivial also btw. There are tools for it.
> Further, binaries which grovel in /dev/kmem tend to have to be kept in sync > with the kernel; in-kernel code is fundamentally in sync.
Disagree. Its reading BIOS tables not poking at kernel internals - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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