Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem

[Arjan van de Ven]

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...


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