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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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Subject: Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code
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On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:22:55PM -0400, Richard Gooch wrote:
> The transaction(2) syscall can be just as easily abused as ioctl(2) in
> this respect.

But read() and write() cannot.

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