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    SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
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    Followup to:  <20020102170833.A17655@thyrsus.com>
    By author: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
    In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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    > But this is not a bad reason. Allowing people to avoid running suid
    > programs is a *good* reason.
    >

    In this case that is a nonsense reason, since what you're proposing
    doing is to change a userspace setuid program (which, on Unix, is
    functionally a privilege level between the kernel and normal userspace
    code) into kernel code. Not a win.

    -hpa
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