SOLVED! Re: cdrecord no workie after upgade to 2.6.10

[Net Llama!]

On 01/02/2005 05:01 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:36:04PM -0800, Net Llama! took 60 lines to write:
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>>On 01/02/2005 01:32 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
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> [le snipp?]
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>>>I seem to remember that Mandrake (?) and SUSE (?) have provided kernel
>>>patches to back out the root-only behavior?
>>
>>Ahhh.  That's not really the same as it getting fixed.  In fact, that 
>>seems rather dangerous behavior, since they are intentionally negating a 
>>security feature of the kernel.
> 
> 
> No different, IMNSHO, than providing a compile-time option to do the 
> same thing. The method is different, but the result is the same.

The result is the same, but it won't help if this stuff never gets into 
Linus's tree.  I don't want to have to start picking apart Mandrake or 
SuSE's kernel source RPMs to allow me to burn a CD as non-root.

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