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Re: savecore: default to -N /dev/ksyms?



On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:35:34PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > I'm going to check in the following patch and request a pullup, if
> > nobody has a persuasive objection in the near term (see also
> > misc/38425):
> 
> I'm not sure I'd call it an objection, really, but-- are you sure
> access() is the right thing in view of its behaviour in set-id
> processes?  Especially for libkvm?

It's a hard-coded path in /dev. Unless you are doing really strange
things, users don't have control over that, right?

Joerg


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