Re: only root has acces to /dev/mem ?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:54:32 +0100 (BST)

> > to kmem in order to prevent rawio being set by other means and violating
> > the bounding set.
>
> Would it be ok to permit opening kmem read-only without raw I/O?

Some devices can be triggered by read operations. Its probably ok for
almost all cases though

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