==> Regarding Re: [patch] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor number 0; Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> adds:
jengelh> On Jan 12 2007 11:32, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:32:11 -0500
>> From: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
>> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Steven Fernandez <[email protected]>, Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [patch] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor
>> number 0
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Minor number 0 (under the raw major) is reserved for the rawctl device
>> file, which is used to query, set, and unset raw device bindings.
>> However, the ioctl interface does not protect the user from specifying
>> a raw device with minor number 0:
jengelh> No idea what to say about this... probably:
jengelh> What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
jengelh> When: December 2005
jengelh> Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
jengelh> O_DIRECT can be used instead
jengelh> Who: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
It's still present, still used, and so would benefit from being fixed, in
my opinion.
Cheers,
Jeff
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