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SubjectRe: [RFC] relinquish_fs() syscall
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On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 05:27 -0800, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > With CAP_SYS_RAWIO I can ask the IDE controller to DMA into the kernel
> > as one example.
>
> Can you really do that on normal file descriptors? Weird. I'd have thought
> you'd need to open /dev/hd* to do that.

inb/outb after iopl.


> Is AF_UNIX in a separate namespace? My understanding (from reading
> unix_find_other()) is that unless you can create a UNIX socket in your
> filesystem you're going to have trouble creating new UNIX sockets.

iirc there are anonymous unix sockets...

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