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SubjectRe: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Marek Habersack wrote:

> The current X uses a server wrapper to do the suid root tasks. The
> server itself isn't suid root.

It's quite possible that I'm missing something, but I seem to recall
that that was done for security reasons.

A process running at ring 0 can still disable interrupts, DMA into
kernel memory, etc...

Matthew.


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