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From: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tilman.baumann@collax.com, Andreas Hofmeister <andi@collax.com>
Subject: Re: permissions on /proc/tty/driver/
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:42:41 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803031740460.15875@er-systems.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802291912310.24941@er-systems.de>

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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Thomas Voegtle wrote:

> we noticed that only root can enter /proc/tty/driver/, which appears to be 
> wrong, because the files therein are actually world readable...

I found out why this was done:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.29

Chris Wright:
  o /proc/tty/driver/serial reveals the exact number of characters used
in serial links (CAN-2003-0461)


So, please ignore this patch I sent.

      Thomas

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-29 18:16 Thomas Voegtle
2008-03-03 16:42 ` Thomas Voegtle [this message]

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