Jan Setje-Eilers wrote:
> We do know what it does. Re-design is perhaps a stronger term than was
> appropriate here. Enrico was collapsing what were originally two daemons
> into one yesterday. He was primarily offering that he'd be happy to make
> additional changes if you had some smart ideas about how to deal with
> xsvc without running as root.
At least from our experience with Xorg, you will need full privileges
(uid 0) for both /dev/xsvc and the sysi86 call to change the IOPL.
You may be able to drop some privileges after you've done that (Xorg
can't since it has to be able to unwind and redo those calls again
later).
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
