Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:53:29 -0800 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? |
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:24:48PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > But you're thinking like a developer, not a user. The right question > is which approach requires the lowest level of *user* privilege to get > the job done. Comparing world-readable /proc files versus a setuid app, > the answer is obvious. This sort of thing is exactly what /proc is *for*.
What's wrong with a startup routine that includes something like:
dmidecode > /var/run/dmi
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