Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:47:07 +0100 |
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On Sul, 2004-08-22 at 18:31, Christer Weinigel wrote: > On the other hand a bug in my favourite cd burner application could > give away SYS_CAP_RAWIO instead, and I think that is even worse.
Its not an easy trade off- I don't know if there is a right answer. Despite the UI problems in both cdrecord and its author the internal code is actually quite rigorous so its something I'd be more comfortable giving limited rawio access than quite a few other apps that touch external public data.
Alan
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