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Re: patches to move sys_getfh to vfs_syscalls.c?

To: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Subject: Re: patches to move sys_getfh to vfs_syscalls.c?
From: Uwe Ohse <uwe@ohse.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 16:49:28 +0100
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
References: <200002012342.QAA26643@cvs.openbsd.org> <5laelk8ogj.fsf@assaris.sics.se>

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:58:36AM +0100, Assar Westerlund wrote:

> > What permission checking happens on these?
> 
> They're root-only.
[...]
> - news-server and

news servers hopefully do not run as root.

>   potentially web proxies such as squid

and web proxies do not even have the slightest excuse to need root
permissions.

Regards, Uwe

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