mmap question

[Hans de Goede]

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.
> 
> 
> 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