On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:46:43PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The X server itself used to do that. Are you saying that wdm is a
> *privileged process*?
Nah, it is a simple display manager you start with /etc/init.d/wdm init
script. Like the other display managers gdm, kdm, etc.
But it looks like wdm has copied stuff from xdm (from the README):
"Wdm is a modification of XFree86's xdm package for graphically handling
authentication and system login. Most of xdm has been preserved (XFree86
4.2.1.1) with the Login interface based on a WINGs implementation using
Tom Rothamel's "external greet" interface (see AUTHORS)."
And from looking at the part in the source which does the /dev/mem
accesses, it comes from XFree86's source apparently, this is at the
beginning of src/wdm/genauth.c:
/* $Xorg: genauth.c,v 1.5 2001/02/09 02:05:40 xorgcvs Exp $ */
/*
Copyright 1988, 1998 The Open Group
...
so this explains why it behaves like the X server in that respect.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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