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From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
Date4 Jan 2002 22:56:34 -0800
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.

	-hpa
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