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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:21:41 +0100 (CET)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements)
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > We have also been over the fact that dmidecode, if written
> > appropriately, could be setuid, or call a "dmicat" setuid program.
> > This is a dmidecode implementation detail.
> We've also proved the DMI data is too unreliable to be used, so the entire
> problem space is irrelevant

That's not a problem, remember Eric volunteered to maintain the
enormous black list 8-)

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