On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>
> change pipefs to use a unique inode number equal to the memory
> address unless it would be truncated.
I *really* wouldn't want to expose kernel addresses to user space, it just
ends up being a piece of data that they shouldn't have. If we have some
security issue, this is just too much kernel information that a bad user
could get at.
Linus
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