On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Willem Riede wrote:
> Khimenko Victor wrote:
> >
> > In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007230237430.6884-100000@dax.joh.cam.ac.uk> James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
> > JS> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> How so ? You are not using XFree86, right ? Then you can remove CAP_SYS_RAW
> > >> from system and be happy.
> >
> > JS> So it has gone. That's my point.
> >
> > You can do this on your router and perhaps even on your web-server. You can not
> > do this on desktop workstation. Not while such access is needed by XFree86.
> >
> So maybe we should split that capability and have CAP_SYS_RAW_GRAPHICS?
Indeed. Unfortunately, that requires distinguishing between direct access
to the video card(s?) and all the other hardware; there IS a patch out
there which can do this using PCI resource allocations with, apparently,
reasonable success. It's not in yet, but it would fit the bill. Maybe for
2.5?
James.
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