Re: Turn CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM in sysctl dev.mem.restricted

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Nov 16 2008 - 15:36:40 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> I assume /dev/crash is read only
>
> but your series still makes absolutely no sense to me...
> really. Nak.
>
> You either want this at compile time or you don't want it at all.
>

You could certainly envision this as a boottime option, or even a
*one-way* settable runtime option (kind of like the BSD securelevel
idea.) The question is to which extent even that makes any sense.

-hpa
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