Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:34:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: TO HELL WITH IT THEN......(re: disk-destroyer.c) |
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 bodnar42@bodnar42.dhs.org wrote: > > > The last thing the kernel needs to do is protect hardware from root's > > applications. > > You know what, if you compile the full taskfile option into the kernel, > ROOT can screw itself into a throbbing orgasm, but a limited access for > general use has to be the default to protect all of the newbies!
The newbies that are writing proggies that use ioctl() to send low level IDE commands directly to a drive? I agree that if a clueless newbie has the ability to send direct IDE commands, they should be filtered, but the kernel level is not the place to do this.
Later, Ryan
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