Re: [PATCH] Allow /dev/{,k}mem to be disabled to prevent kernel from being modified easily

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Sun Aug 03 2003 - 14:32:18 EST

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bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl> wrote:
>
> +#if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_ACCESS)
> {1, "mem", S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP, &mem_fops},
> {2, "kmem", S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP, &kmem_fops},
> +#endif

Well if you're going to do this, wouldn't it be better to force a segv and
drop some messages in syslog?

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