> You realize that this is a security violation - a user could now allocate
large
> chunks of disk in the hopes of capturing something interesting. If tmp is
part
> of the root file system, then passwords may be exposed for example. This
is NOT
> a good idea.
this service won't be avialable to users, only to process with special
permissions
and if you see this as a security violation, than the whole uNIX security
model should be abendon since process with root permissions can read any
file or memory area.
/gaby
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