Re: TIOCGDEV ioctl

2000-12-21 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 05:11:07PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > > The kernel provides this information -- sort of: > > It contains the TIOCTTYGSTRUCT syscall which returns a struct. Of course, > > it changes between different kernel archs and

Re: [patch] For 2.4: syscall revoke.

2000-10-17 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
So ... how can a revoke system call be implemented without changing vfs too much? IMHO this system call is missed. There are some really interesting interfaces using block or character devices which shouldn't be usable for users because of the lack of secure revoking of such a device. Therefore

[patch] For 2.4: syscall revoke.

2000-10-13 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
Hi, hopefully this mail isn't lost because of a nervous `d' finger ;^) Last week I've finished the work on the system call revoke for 2.4 and done some changes on it suggested by the vendors security list. Due to the security issue of the syscall revoke, it would nice to see this patch goin