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    SubjectRe: ide-cd problems
    On Thu, Aug 05 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
    > On Mer, 2004-08-04 at 06:01, Jens Axboe wrote:
    > > Absolutely not. I've already outlined why in my previous mails I don't
    > > want to see anything like this, and this patch is even worse than
    > > filtering. Additionally, you risk breaking existing programs.
    >
    > Existing broken programs.
    >
    > Once you do filtering so you don't need CAP_SYS_RAWIO to lob some
    > commands at a device that becomes the place to enforce sensible policies
    > because the filter knows what is "read" and what is "write" so it can do
    > different checks for say "eject" (read) "write" (write) and "erase
    > firmware" (raw I/O)

    Alan, there will be _no_ filtering.

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    Jens Axboe

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