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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 1997 16:47:45 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@nic.follonett.no>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysctl -A
Message-ID:  <199704271447.QAA08219@nic.follonett.no>
In-Reply-To: <19970427091019.YV06768@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Apr 27, 97 09:10:19 am"

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> Pulling all the dix code from the Xserver into the kernel would be the
> technically correct solution, but is out of the question due to the
> sheer amount of work required (and due to decentralizing the
> maintenance that's currently done in an operating-system independent
> way by the XFree86 team).

If the filesystem flags (immutable etc) is pulled along far enough into the
kernel, it might be possible to do this by adding a separate flag indicating
that the executable in question is allowed to do hardware access.
It would of course need to be unchangable on securelevel > 0, and require the
immutable flag for the executable.

Also, it is quite a hack, and I don't think I'd consider the ugliness
worthwhile.  However, if this _really_ is a priority, it might be an
option.

Eivind.



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