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Message-ID: <a71bd89a0711290746q57002217ga14c4f4f7201683d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:46:19 -0800
From:	"Dan Kegel" <dank@...el.com>
To:	"Xavier Bestel" <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Relax permissions for reading hard drive serial number?

On Nov 29, 2007 7:37 AM, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr> wrote:
> > One sticking point is that apps like Photoshop and probably
> > Punkbuster want to retrieve the hard drive's serial number
>
> So they can't be installed on a network drive ?

I think Adobe supports that, though perhaps not with the
retail version.  Big companies with network drives are
probably an important revenue source for them.

I haven't looked closely at what happens when you try installing
onto network drives.  If you are really interested, it's pretty easy to
try yourself; just run the app under wine with
WINEDEBUG=+cdrom,+disk and look in the log for calls like
CreateFile("\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0", ...).
There's some chance the code always checks drive 0 instead
of the drive you're installing onto.
- Dan
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