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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:35:36PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Further, binaries which grovel in /dev/kmem tend to have to be kept in sync > > with the kernel; in-kernel code is fundamentally in sync. > > Disagree. Its reading BIOS tables not poking at kernel internals It's still not very nice for userspace apps to touch hardware directly, even if it's just BIOS memory ... -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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