Re: ioperm is kept on fork

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From	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject	Re: ioperm is kept on fork
Date	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:40:03 +0200
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On 06/16/2015 09:42 AM, Alex Henrie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could one of you knowledgeable kernel developers comment on
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99911 ? The man pages
> maintainer wants to know when this behavior changed.
> 

I know that I wrote a program which required I/O privileges at some
point, and it called ioperm() in a setuid wrapper.  This was in the late
90s.  I suspect we'd have to do a bit of a deep dive to double-check;
the old ioperm() code which only supported the ISA port range to avoid
having to copy the bitmap might be good to look at.

	-hpa

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Re: ioperm is kept on fork "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-06-16 19:40 +0200

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