Subject: Re: Why not track our xsrc with X11R6.6 from X.org?
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Andrey Petrov <petrov@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/20/2001 11:18:55
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:32:50AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:45:33AM -0700, Andrey Petrov wrote:
> >
> > I think I meant to say there are no certain memory protection that
> > reasonable Unices put even on root. At least today.
>
> Well, that's just wrong.
>
Every time someone debugs he accesses other process' memory. If you are root
you can debug any process in a system. /dev/mem gives you access to the kernel
memory. Is that wrong?
Andrey