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From:   Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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Subject: Re: [patch 5/9] x86/ioport: Reduce ioperm impact for sane usage
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 10:45:09AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Further a quick look shows that dosemu uses ioperm in a fine grained
> manner.  From memory it would allow a handful of ports to allow directly
> accessing a device and depended on the rest of the port accesses to be
> disallowed so it could trap and emulate them.
> 
> So yes I do believe making ioperm ioperm(all) will break userspace.

OK, and I must confess I almost forgot about dosemu, that's a good point!

Thanks,
Willy