Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 01:57:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 01:57:10 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:64773 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 01:56:56 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems? Date: 4 Jan 2002 22:56:34 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020102164757.A16976@thyrsus.com> <20020102170833.A17655@thyrsus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2002 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20020102170833.A17655@thyrsus.com> By author: "Eric S. Raymond" In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > But this is not a bad reason. Allowing people to avoid running suid > programs is a *good* reason. > In this case that is a nonsense reason, since what you're proposing doing is to change a userspace setuid program (which, on Unix, is functionally a privilege level between the kernel and normal userspace code) into kernel code. Not a win. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/