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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: programmatic devices
Message-ID: <1989Dec29.040341.14341@twwells.com>
Date: 29 Dec 89 04:03:41 GMT
References: <10641@ucsd.Edu>
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In article <10641@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
: I don't know what IOCTLs should do with pdevs.

Have the execute bit determine if ioctls are permitted.

Of course, given that the protocol between the kernel and the
program is adequate, the program could do all access control.

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