Moved to tech-kern because my question has nothing to do with
source commits in progress.

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 08:14:40PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> Of course, if you can read /dev/mem you can find the current state.

Say, why do we need /dev/kmem and /dev/mem these days? Are they
still needed for ps and friends? X11 device drivers?

Wouldn't we be better off security-wise without them? 

Would it be reasonable to make them optional?
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
           On the community of supercomputer fans:
"But what we lack in size we make up for in eccentricity." 
  from Steve Gombosi, comp.sys.super, 31 Jul 2000 11:22:43 -0600