Re: Direct access to hardware

From: Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 08:14:10 EST


On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, James Sutherland wrote:

> The proper interface will allow the very small handful of utilities which
> need to bypass these checks (to update firmware or whatever) to do so,
> while preventing other access.

        The proper interface... You mean like the nice clean interface
we currently have that will just be cluttered up by these attempts to
filter it?

                Stephen

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