On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 17:12 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:33 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > Though I do wonder whether
> > > it was safe to change its behaviour at that stage: more evidence that
> > > few have actually been using mmap of /dev/kmem.
> >
> > ... and maybe we should just kill /dev/kmem entirely... it seems mostly
> > used by rootkits but very few other things, if any at all...
>
> It was discourteous of me not to CC you: I thought you might say that ;)
> Though so long as /dev/mem support remains, /dev/kmem might as well?
they're not the same; for a long time, /dev/mem on actual memory
returned zeros... so you couldn't use it for rootkits ;)
(that got "fixed" a while ago)
> And be kept as a CONFIG_ option under DEBUG_KERNEL thereafter?
config option is fine I suppose... I assume distros will be smart enough
to turn it off ;)
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