> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Marek Habersack wrote:
>
> > The current X uses a server wrapper to do the suid root tasks. The
> > server itself isn't suid root.
>
> It's quite possible that I'm missing something, but I seem to recall
> that that was done for security reasons.
Of course - that's what we say.
> A process running at ring 0 can still disable interrupts, DMA into
> kernel memory, etc...
But the Xserver isn't running in the kernel mode.
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