On 1/14/08, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:31:03PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) > wrote: > > I think, it is a potential security breakpoint, when applications with > > root permission its read, then a machine is freezed, or only i thin > > it's? > > When you are root there are infinite ways to kill your machine, so > there's nothing security related about this issue.
Yes, i know, but when some application or daemons read some file with running root privileges, then ... thanks, then it is only a "feature" and not bug. > > > Thanks, > > Oliver > > cu > Adrian > > -- > > "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out > of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. > "Only a promise," Lao Er said. > Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed > > -- Thanks, Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
