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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:33:55 +0200
From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Julien Oster <frodo@dereference.de>
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Subject: Re: kernel ring buffer accessible by users
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 On Tue, Apr 22, Julien Oster wrote:

> My question now is: Why? I often saw things in the kernel ring buffer
> which I don't want every user to know (e.g. some telephone numbers with
> ISDN).

This is a bug in the kernel ISDN code. The userspace daemon must log it
to syslog, these messages do not belong to the dmesg buffer.

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