On 18/04/2010 02:02, Jonathan wrote: [snip]
53 SUID or GUID programs on my system! Why does cdrecord have SUID set? "/dev/sr0" is in the cdrom group with rw set so SUID should not be needed in the first place.
Device node permissions are not the concern. If I recall correctly, it is so that it may (a) call mlockall() (b) employ the SCHED_RR (realtime) scheduling policy.
Cheers, --Kerin
