From: "Simon Arlott" <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
To: devzero@web.de
Cc: "Robert Hancock" <hancockr@shaw.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!?
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:29:40 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15058.simon.1195648180@5ec7c279.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2097618015@web.de>
On Wed, November 21, 2007 00:01, devzero@web.de wrote:
>>There is.. it's called "root privileges".
> yes, true.
>
> but - regardless of being a windows app or not - what if you want to take a look on your system as a whole,
> especially when using some tool which graphically shows how and where your diskspace is being used? if i
> let this run from ordinary useraccount it would get lot`s of "permission denied" and then it`s only telling
> half of the truth.....
Such a tool shouldn't need to open any files, whether they're device files or not. Do you expect it to open
/dev/zero etc. too and read from an infinitely sized "file"?
>> > i`d wish there would be some fence around this or iTCO_wdt /dev/watchdog not being active after a
>> default desktop installation.
Delete it?
--
Simon Arlott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-21 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-21 0:01 System reboot triggered by just reading a device file....!? devzero
2007-11-21 12:29 ` Simon Arlott [this message]
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2007-11-22 21:22 devzero
2007-11-22 19:54 devzero
2007-11-22 20:42 ` Clemens Koller
[not found] <fa.NKMd2cOUI5zSAFh0xiVy3hZdy3s@ifi.uio.no>
2007-11-20 23:34 ` Robert Hancock
2007-11-20 23:06 devzero
2007-11-20 23:51 ` Matt Mackall
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