Re: ANNOUNCE: /dev/bios - flash rom bios driver

Damien Miller (dmiller@vitnet.com.sg)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:23:17 +1100 (EST)


On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 chip@atlantic.net wrote:

> According to John Labovitz:
> >
> > fd1 = open("/dev/biosguard", O_WRONLY);
> > fd2 = open("/dev/bios", O_WRONLY);
> > write(fd2, newbioscode, newbioscodelen);
> > close(fd2);
> > close(fd1);
> >
>
> I like this even better than my own ioctl guard idea.

Especially if it obeys securelevel

Regards,
Damien Miller

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