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Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> 
   of "Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:34:19 CDT." <20020102173419.A21165@thyrsus.com> 
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 10:10:07 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> said:
[...]

> What?  Perhaps we're talking at cross-prorposes here.  What I'm proposing
> is that /proc/dmi should be a world-readable /proc file with the property
> that 
> 	cat /proc/dmi
> 
> gives you a DMI report.  No root privileges or SUID programs needed.
> Surely that would be an improvement on having to run Arjan's dmidecode as
> root or requiring it to be SUID.

You seem to assume that in-kernel code is automatically safe...
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