On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Urgh. That should be fixed at some point too, then. Everything userland
> > does with hardware should go via the kernel, and it should be possible for
> > the kernel to block/restrict that access.
>
> If you use the VESA X server and kill CAP_SYS_RAWIO that is what is
> supposed to occur.
Right. Now we just need to patch the Linux ATA driver to honour
CAP_SYS_RAWIO for this call - oh, no, wait, root is supposed to be god so
we can't do that... I'm starting to see what pickled Andre's brain here
:-(
James.
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