Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [security]: kernel ioctl()'s [3] | Date | Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:03:52 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> reasonable thing to do. It should get applied to the 2.3 tree, and > perhaps to the 2.2 tree (it really isn't a bug fix as much as it is a > new feature, although it's fairly low risk as new features go).
I think its out of the question for 2.2, too much software knows it can write to users files as root. You've just broken that unix tradition (quite possibly sensibly broken)
Alan
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