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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >I wouldn't want to set anything that tells the kernel not to switch
> >the process (or KSE).  That shouldn't be allowed from userland, at
> >least without proper permissions.
> 
> It doesn't tell it not to switch to any other KSE, but rather
> not to switch to another KSE within the same "process" (process
> group?  I don't know the correct terminology).  I don't see
> why this would be a security problem.  Of course, this would
> only be available for UP, i386 configurations.

OK, I didn't read it that way.

-- 
Dan Eischen


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