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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: --- <grundig@teleline.es>
Cc: "Frederick, Fabian" <Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.7 "thoughts"] V0.3
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:13:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031011021307.GH727@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031011040435.299bd3bc.grundig@teleline.es>

On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:04:35AM +0200, --- wrote:
> On thing me (as a user) would like to see is more user limits.
> In particular; a (small) per-user mlock limit would be nice so a normal user
> can mlock some memory to avoid buffer underruns without needing to give suid
> permissions to cdrecord (which is what people uses now and guarantees you'll
> have to update your cdrecord copy some day due to unavoidable security issues).
> I wonder if this is a good wishlist item or just a stupid idea...

cdrecord doesn't make sense because it requires privilege for device
access anyway.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-11  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-10  7:54 [2.7 "thoughts"] V0.3 Frederick, Fabian
2003-10-10  8:01 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-10  8:13 ` John Bradford
2003-10-10 14:38   ` Rik van Riel
2003-10-10  9:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-10 21:17 ` Uncle Jens
2003-10-10 21:59   ` Jeff Sipek
2003-10-10 22:05   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-10 22:33     ` Michael Jensen
2003-10-10 23:13       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-11  1:54         ` Michael Jensen
2003-10-11  2:23   ` Greg KH
2003-10-11  2:04 ` ---
2003-10-11  2:13   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-10-11  2:30     ` ---
2003-10-11  6:24 ` Gabor MICSKO
2003-10-11  6:43   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-10-11 10:56   ` Meelis Roos

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