Carsten Otte wrote: > Alan Altmark wrote: > [snip....] > > >>>> 4 == examine real storage (CP memory, ie: "hack VM from Linux"!) >>> >>>/dev/mem does that. >> >> >>/dev/mem examines guest memory, not CP. IMO: Dangerous Idea. The ability >>to read CP memory comes with the ability to change it. > > Oh, CP memory not virtual guest storage. Is this fenced for non-privileged > guests? Is there use to debug CP from within a guest like with gdb or so? > I can think of no reason to be able to examine CP real memory from Linux, and I think that doing so would be a terrible security exposure.
>>>Would you care to answer the second part of my question for those >>>diagnoses we don't export (yet)? :: >>> >>> >>>> 14 == VM spool file manipulation >>>> B8 == spool file "XAB" manipulation >> >>These should be accessed via the reader/printer/punch device drivers >>Malcolm write a few years ago, not as diagnose calls. > > In fact we tried to implement a reader filesystem once but gave up because > we could'nt find a good way to map (VM-)records to (Linux-)character > stream. > A clean implementation of a device driver for those seems useful to me. > > And as Adm T. has mentioned, put them someplace where everybody can easily find them, and add functionality so a user space application could be notified (async.) when a file appears on the rdr queue. >>>> 88 == minidisk password validation >> >>It is actually a proxy-LINK function for multi-client SVMs. It also has >>logon password and LOGON-BY validation. This could have some value. > > Alan, I don't have the slightest idea on what it does from your explanation. > Can you translate to that to linuxish? What are SVMs? > > So far on my personal "good idea" list: > - reader/punch/printer device driver > - set language support > - IUCV network protocol family > -- > > Carsten Otte > IBM Linux technology center > ARCH=s390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Dave Jones V/Soft Software, Inc. Houston 281.578.7544 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
