Re: mmap question

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > The problem with this is that in order todo this svgalib leaves the fd 
> > for /dev/mem open. Which of course is a big nono from a security point 
> > of view.
>
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> In fedora that's actually not THAT bad actually; still not too good tho
Could you explain this a bit?

> As for your question; there is a fremap which may do what you want, but
> the use of it is a bit tricky sort of so I'm not sure if you really want
> to do that.
Hmm, that might to the trick, why wouldn't I want todo that?
And what about doing tricks with /proc/self/mem?

Thanks ! & Regards,

Hans