Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:06:44 +0300 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: Direct access to hardware |
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:08:37PM +0000, you [Miquel van Smoorenburg] claimed: > In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.21.0007211543460.12570-100000@anime.net>, > Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote: > >On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ville Herva wrote: > >> So, would it be feasible to make it possible to disable direct hardware > >> access (/dev/mem, /dev/nvram, HD ioctls, what else?) completely in kernel > >> config? > > > >I would certainly feel better if this were possible, in which case Andre's > >patch would be more reasonable. > > It _is_ possible. Check out "capabilities".
Whoops, excuse me for being stupid! Should have looked closer...
But why on earth do we have this several-hundred-postings thread on this, if it is already possible to disable all the raw access?
Is it actually feasible? Which important or often used apps do need raw access?
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