[ On Monday, September 8, 2003 at 20:45:49 (-0700), Greywolf wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: increasing a process's max data size
>
> Granted; but privilege is irrelevant, really.

Actually true privilege, i.e. UID==0, is _everything_ in this particular
example where a properly configured and stable system still allows root
to both read and write to kernel memory.

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