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Re: Privileged ports to access the arbiter


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: Privileged ports to access the arbiter
Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 20:22:36 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3)

Joan Lledó, le mer. 05 mai 2021 20:11:00 +0200, a ecrit:
> I found a problem there:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libpciaccess/-/blob/master/src/hurd_pci.c#L526
> 
> I can't run my nested arbiter as a non-privileged user b/c this line
> prevents me to connect to the main arbiter by lack of permissions. Why are
> why asking for privileges here? do we really need it?

Mmm, no, we only need it for the device_open case. We don't need it for
falling back on using file_name_lookup (_SERVERS_BUS_PCI)

Samuel



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