Re: Larger dev_t

Richard Gooch
2001-04-03T17:05:00Z

Alan Cox writes:
> > However, a large number of people run devfs on small to large systems,
> > and these "races" aren't causing problems. People tell me it's quite
>
> They dont have users actively trying to exploit them. I don't
> consider it a big problem for development trees though. devfs has a
> maintainer at least

Agreed. If I were a sysadmin where I had users I didn't trust, then
I'd be worried. Actually, I'd simply not enable module autoloading.
In fact, I don't run autoloading because I don't like it personally.
And I'm lucky that I have users on my network that I feel I can
trust. Besides, I know where they live, or at least where they store
their data/theses :-)

Regards,

Richard....
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