Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[david.sainty%dtsp.co.nz@localhost]

Michael Lorenz writes:

> On Mar 26, 2008, at 07:29, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Only by altering the IOPL of the X server and by forcefully closing  
> > all
> > instances of /dev/mem it holds open. I am not sure that is a clean
> > approach...
> 
> ... and even that would work only on x86, on other archs we mmap  
> everything, including PCI IO, through /dev/ttyE0. No idea how  
> difficult it would be to make all mappings read-only and thereby  
> crashing the Xserver.

Isn't it easier to just kill it? :)