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To: Jamie Gritton <jamie@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: A PRIV_* flag for /dev/mem? 
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From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
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I pointed Robert and Pawel at your discussion on creating a new
PRIV_KMEM and adding a check for it in memopen(). I am of the opinion
that this is a good idea, but I am hoping that one of Robert or Pawel
will comment since they are much more active in this area.

	Kirk McKusick