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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:09:23 -0800
From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] syslog: distinguish between /proc/kmsg and
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Hi Alex,

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:58:43AM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > + ? ? ? /* /proc/kmsg can open be opened by CAP_SYS_ADMIN */
> > + ? ? ? if (type != 1 && from_file)
> > + ? ? ? ? ? ? ? return 0;
> 
> "can open be opened"?

Erk, sorry.  s/open //

James, do you want a patch for that?

-Kees

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