Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:04:38 +0100 (BST) | | From | James Sutherland <> | | Subject | Re: disk-destroyer.c |
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On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Urgh. That should be fixed at some point too, then. Everything userland > > does with hardware should go via the kernel, and it should be possible for > > the kernel to block/restrict that access. > > If you use the VESA X server and kill CAP_SYS_RAWIO that is what is > supposed to occur.
Right. Now we just need to patch the Linux ATA driver to honour CAP_SYS_RAWIO for this call - oh, no, wait, root is supposed to be god so we can't do that... I'm starting to see what pickled Andre's brain here :-(
James.
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