Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? | Date | 4 Jan 2002 22:56:34 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20020102170833.A17655@thyrsus.com> By author: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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.
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