The following reply was made to PR kern/35821; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Elad Efrat <elad@bsd.org.il>
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/35821: /dev/mem is not readable any more
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:48:31 +0200

 Martin Husemann wrote:
 > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 11:10:02PM +0000, Elad Efrat wrote:
 >>  when did it (=acpidump thing) work with securelevel > 0? and did you try
 >>  with securelevel <= 0?
 > 
 > You are right, it does not work on 4.0_BETA either. It works fine with 
 > securelevel -1.
 > 
 > This does not make it less a bug - if the open succeeds, why should the
 > read fail? Side note: EPERM is not an expected return value from {p}read.
 > 
 > This behaviour disagrees with my reading of secmodel_bsd44(9), but maybe
 > I'm missing something.
 > 
 > Martin
 
 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/i386/i386/mem.c#rev1.62
 
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