On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:31:03PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote:
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> I think, it is a potential security breakpoint, when applications with
> root permission its read, then a machine is freezed, or only i thin
> it's?

When you are root there are infinite ways to kill your machine, so 
there's nothing security related about this issue.

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> Thanks,
> Oliver

cu
Adrian

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