linux-kernel - Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:57:04 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@...l.net>,
	Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@...il.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:33 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Though I do wonder whether
> it was safe to change its behaviour at that stage: more evidence that
> few have actually been using mmap of /dev/kmem. 

... and maybe we should just kill /dev/kmem entirely... it seems mostly
used by rootkits but very few other things, if any at all...


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