Re: capabilities PATCH

From: Dominik Kubla (dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 15:08:23 EST

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On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:14:06PM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
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> As of svgalib-2.0 (not yet released, but alpha version is available),
> svgalib includes a kernel module that provides a char device for each
> video card in the system, which lets a user access the memory an IO that
> the card uses. This means that svgalib programs need not run as root,
> but simply as a user that has rw access to some device file.

You are kidding me, right? We already have the framebuffer device, so why
in hell did you develop your own kernel interface? That's ridiculous!

Dominik Kubla

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