Re: [RFC] [SECURITY] floppy driver

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:59:32 +0100 (GMT)


On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Olaf Kirch wrote:

> > I don't have any specific gripe (yet), but are there any objections to
> > restricting raw floppy commands to a privileged user?
>
> If you want to be able to format floppies you need raw w access IIRC.

To format a floppy there are separate ioctl()'s - the raw command ioctl
isn't needed

Chris

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