> You arrived at the proper conclusion -- it doesn't happen in practice > for a variety of reasons, the main one being that it's largely in the > realm of something the superuser must do intentionally, the way kernel > and userland code is written today. Actually thats a serious privilege escalation as it gets you from raw disk access to cap_sys_rawio so its a security flaw and should be treated as such even though it is only a minor one in most operating contexts. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
