Re: only root has acces to /dev/mem ?

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:59:27 +0200

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Alan Cox wrote:
> In order to enforce bounding sets it is neccessary to require rawio access
> to kmem in order to prevent rawio being set by other means and violating
> the bounding set.

Would it be ok to permit opening kmem read-only without raw I/O?

-- Jamie

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