Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 2 February 2001 at 20:10:10 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> >> crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78, 0 Dec 31 1969 pci
> >
> > This one may appear harmless, but it is not. It is trivially easy to creat
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> > an alignment fault (fatal
On Friday, 2 February 2001 at 20:10:10 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote:
>
>> crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78, 0 Dec 31 1969 pci
>
> This one may appear harmless, but it is not. It is trivially easy to create
> an alignment fault (fatal on an alpha) with the userland pcicon
Robert Watson wrote:
> crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78, 0 Dec 31 1969 pci
This one may appear harmless, but it is not. It is trivially easy to create
an alignment fault (fatal on an alpha) with the userland pciconf tool.
We must not allow this to be used by users until the kernel part i
Driver developers!
As you probably know by now, Poul-Henning has enabled DEVFS in the GENERIC
kernel on FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. This is a strong feature and it's great to
see it getting brought back to life. However! Many of consumers of
make_dev() have chosen their default permissions somewhat
