mmap question

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 21:56 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> 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?

try doing "interesting" things with /dev/mem and you'll see what I
mean ;)



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