Re: Reading /dev/mem by dd

[Alan Cox]

> In this case, the problem seems to be access over /dev/mem to stuff the
> kernel is already taking care of.  Certainly "as safe as possible" does

Which is often what is desired - eg debugging driver stuff.

> not have to mean making /dev/mem useless for whatever good uses it has.

It does. Plain and simple.

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