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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] races in access to pci_devices
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> alas, yes, that's been there since time began, and since the window was
> so minimal nobody cared enough to do anything about it.  Even on the
> larger hotplug PCI servers that Greg KH mentioned, the pci list really
> isn't traversed much, much less updated.

while true; do cat </proc/bus/pci/devices >/dev/null; done - notice that it's
world-readable (ditto for /proc/pci).

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