New submission from Venkatesh Srinivas <[email protected]>: It seems that the XIG X Server wanted to be able to map /dev/mem MAP_PRIVATE, so at securelevel < 1, root could MAP_PRIVATE character devs. This workaround is marked 'this will have to go'; remove it.
Patch at http://endeavour.zapto.org/dfly/mmap_no_more_xig.diff ---------- messages: 8452 nosy: vsrinivas status: unread title: Remove XIG X Server hack from kern_mmap() _____________________________________________________ DragonFly issue tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue1724> _____________________________________________________
