Re: Incorrect permissions on parport sysctls.

>We have a bunch of 'probe' sysctl's in parport, which are
>readable. (world readable even). Make them write-only.
>Without this, sysctl -a will try to read these files.

Why write-only? Donot you want to read back what you've written there 
sometime? IMO 0600.



Jan Engelhardt
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