Re: ANNOUNCE: /dev/bios - flash rom bios driver

chip@atlantic.net
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:12:33 -0500 (EST)

According to Dr. Werner Fink:
> > With this driver it's possible to do things like
> > dd if=/bios.bin of=/dev/bios bs=128k count=1
>
> What's about mistakes? This interface is very easy and
> therefore it _is_ very dangerous, isn't it?

I agree. Perhaps the device should require that writing take place
at an offset greater than zero ("dd oskip=1k"?), and attempts to
write at offset zero should result in an immediate EINVAL or some
such error?

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Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -                <chip@pobox.com>
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