Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:33:58 +0000 (GMT) | From | David Taylor <> | Subject | Re: Katmai/PIII support |
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Yeah, if it had to run through a system call, there wouldn't be very much point in it.. You could edit the system call to return a correctly formatted random number each time it was called if you wanted :-)
David Taylor E-Mail: dtaylor@nildram.co.uk.spam ICQ: 268004 [Remove .spam from e-mail to reply]
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > > Curious, can the instructions required to retrive the serial number be run > > from userspace? > > i suppose so (of course only if it's not disabled). It's a variation of > CPUID, so i guess it can be. If you think about copy-protection, you > definitely want to 'embedd' and inline the querying in the protected > product as much as possible, which pretty much rules out system-call based > approaches. > > -- mingo > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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