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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