The line dicipline abstraction would only be useful if loFrom owner-linux-kernel-outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Tue Feb 20 07:12:42 1996
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From: ukd1@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
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Subject: Re: securityhole /proc/sys/kernel/domainname
Date: 20 Feb 1996 05:41:17 GMT
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Christoph Lameter (clameter@miriam.fuller.edu) wrote:
> Is there any reason why a regular user process would need getdomainname()?
any process calling getpw* needs that. A simple "ls" on a directory would
fail to print the UIDs.
Greetings
Bernd
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