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To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cpuctl(formely devcpu) patch test request 
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In message <20080606020927.8d6675e1.stas@FreeBSD.org>, Stanislav Sedov writes:

>The updated patch is available at
>http://www.springdaemons.com/stas/cpuctl.2.diff

Have we fully thought though the potential for halt&catch_fire ?

Would it make sense to have a more granular security model than 
the simple device-node access based "are you root?" test ?

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