Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:08:39 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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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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