Re: Unifying /dev/{mem,kmem,zero,null} implementations

[Elad Efrat <elad%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> http://www.netbsd.org/~joerg/common-mem.diff
> unifies the implementation of /dev/{mem,kmem,zero,null} in MI code and
> makes it MPsafe. This is useful as writing to /dev/null is not that
> unknown :-)

Nice. :)

> - the access permissions for raw memory are inconsistent and should be
> changed to use kauth on all platforms.

Right. I brought it up before:

        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/08/20/0002.html
        http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/10/10/0003.html

so you may wanna look at some of the messages.

Other than that, can you elaborate on what platforms don't use kauth?

Thanks,

-e.