Re: [Sheflug] modules (was: RE: NCR5380)

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

Morning Richard and all

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Richard wrote:

> The 7.1 release will be demonstrated at Blackwell's bookshop at West
> Street on the 24th.  I'll make a proper announcement next week so hope
> you can hang on till then ?

Yep, sure, no rush. My "fingers won't freeze and arms won't fall off" from
typing 'modprobe cs4232' when I want to listen to the radio over my 28.8K
modem (sounds like a masochism:-)) But - yesterday I observed a strange
phenomenon: I decided to make insmod (to which modprobe is just a
symlink) setuid root, and so I did. And when I then tried modprobe cs4232
as a usual user modprobe segfaulted beautifully... lsmod showed cs4232
stuck in '(initializing)' stage, so all attempts to remove / reload it and
related sound modules failed! Is there a solution to such a problem apart
from 'complete reboot'? But today when I tried to reproduce this -
modprobe worked out without any problem at all... Anybody ever seen
anything like this? Isn't making modprobe (insmod) setuid root a bad idea
overall?

Cheers
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk





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