On 5/19/2011 11:18, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> people with this priviledge can access stuff they shouldn't be able to look at.

Sure. But that's different from bypassing the ACLs. :-)

If you really want to prevent that, encrypt the file. (Something else Linux 
doesn't have quite the same.)

> Fair enough. For example, under Linux there are apparently at least 3
> different [incompatible] ways to access the sound hardware. Isn't that
> wonderful?

Actually, I think there's one way to access the sound hardware: /dev/audio. 
There's a variety of servers acting as intermediaries, because for the most 
part, while UNIX is a multi-user system, they never quite got the whole 
"login" concept into the system.

> Right. So for desktop computers it's a non-issue?

Pretty much, yes. As I said, anything with demand paging is probably not 
going to bother supporting overlays.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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