der Mouse wrote: >> on linux /dev/kmem is +w for gid kmem, on bsd too (probably, I didn't >> checked that), > > I *think* this may even have been fixed back in the 4.3 days, but I > can't recall for sure; that was too long ago. - From a BSD/386 1.1 system (based on BSD 4.3): $ ls -l /dev/kmem crw-r----- 1 root kmem 2, 1 Feb 5 1994 /dev/kmem The moral of this story is that we should be careful making unfounded assumptions about other operating systems... ...Ronny -- Ronald Cook, Technical Manager - Message Handling Systems/The Message eXchange Email: ronnyat_private ----- Phone: +61-2-9550-4448 ---- Fax: +61-2-9519-2551
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