Re: /dev/mem

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:39, Prabhu nath <gprabhunath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the clarification.
> Is that not a big hole that the kernel provides ?.

Naively...you can say so...but AFAIK it serves for some (legacy) purpose:
- Wine...or DOSEMU..or dosbox...can't recall which one that used it once...

- X server/ X org...once use it too...



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