> Only some of them can be cached... (some of the MIIs in some drivers
> are already cached, in fact) you can't cache stuff like what your link
> partner is advertising at the moment, or what your battery status is at
> the moment.
I am sure that to an unpriviledged application reporting back
Alan Cox wrote:
> > In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is
> > quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this
> > would be a good idea in general.
> Many of them (like the MII and APM ones) the result can be cached
Only some of them can
> In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is
> quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this
> would be a good idea in general.
Many of them (like the MII and APM ones) the result can be cached
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Bogdan Costescu wrote:
>
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
>
> > > But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the
> > > hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to
> > > continually cat this file? :)
> >
> > Nothing good, probably. Same
Bogdan Costescu wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
But, each time a user cats this proc file, the user is banging the
hardware. What happens when a malicious user forks off 100 processes to
continually cat this file? :)
Nothing good, probably. Same story as
Only some of them can be cached... (some of the MIIs in some drivers
are already cached, in fact) you can't cache stuff like what your link
partner is advertising at the moment, or what your battery status is at
the moment.
I am sure that to an unpriviledged application reporting back the
Alan Cox wrote:
In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is
quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this
would be a good idea in general.
Many of them (like the MII and APM ones) the result can be cached
Only some of them can be
In both of these situations, calling the ioctls without priveleges is
quite useful, so maybe rate-limiting for ioctls and proc files like this
would be a good idea in general.
Many of them (like the MII and APM ones) the result can be cached
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Tim Hockin said once upon a time (Thu, 31 May 2001):
> Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport
> for x86 systems (RaQ3, RaQ4, Qube3, RaQXTR). Please let me know if there
> is anything that would prevent this from general inclusion in the next
> release.
I
Tim Hockin said once upon a time (Thu, 31 May 2001):
Aattached is a (large, but self contained) patch for Cobalt Networks suport
for x86 systems (RaQ3, RaQ4, Qube3, RaQXTR). Please let me know if there
is anything that would prevent this from general inclusion in the next
release.
I can
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