Subject: Re: changed files: 'src/sys/arch/i386/i386 mem.c'
To: None <Mark_Weaver@brown.edu, mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 04/28/1994 09:45:35
>
> The only thing I can really do about this is add a reference count for
> the stupid IOPL hack.
>
One added complication with having this IOPL logic in the mem driver is
that a process may not have taken its privs away by closing its file
descriptor, depending on other procs using /dev/mem: I'm happily running X
now by doing "su; sleep 20 > /dev/mem &; ^D; xinit".
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