On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 01:06:44PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 11:08:37PM +0000, you [Miquel van Smoorenburg] claimed: > > In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.21.0007211543460.12570-100000@anime.net>, > > Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote: > > >On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ville Herva wrote: > > >> So, would it be feasible to make it possible to disable direct hardware > > >> access (/dev/mem, /dev/nvram, HD ioctls, what else?) completely in kernel > > >> config? > > > > > >I would certainly feel better if this were possible, in which case Andre's > > >patch would be more reasonable. > > > > It _is_ possible. Check out "capabilities". > > Whoops, excuse me for being stupid! Should have looked closer... > > But why on earth do we have this several-hundred-postings thread on this, > if it is already possible to disable all the raw access? > > Is it actually feasible? Which important or often used apps do need raw > access?
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Vojtech Pavlik
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