[PATCH] Hal privilige seperation

Artem Kachitchkine Artem.Kachitchkin at Sun.COM
Fri Jan 20 10:00:37 PST 2006


> Another issue that needs addressing is that there is a huge difference 
> between one and many.
> 
> If I do a process list and see one hal daemon I can probably remember 
> that it is supposed to be there.
> 
> If instead I see six (or maybe seven, or five) hal processes running 
> setuid I'm going to have a bit of a problem remembering if all of them 
> are valid.

I understand that this patch adds one and only one process - doesn't 
seem like a huge difference.

-Artem.


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