On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, David Balazic wrote: > Yes, one process can give a file descriptor to another. It is an interesting > UNIX feature that many people do not know, so they go and write terrible > "solutions" of their own.
Still a bad idea - the userspace process can then proceed to scribble on anything anywhere in memory (/dev/mem is _all_ of memory - all MMIO devices, physical RAM, everything). At least if it's SUID root, someone had to make it that way (or your package system did it) as root. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
