From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 6 23:11:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03970 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03954 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA21748; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:40:39 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807070610.PAA21748@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: joelh@gnu.org, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jul 1998 22:17:46 MST." <27600.899788666@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 15:40:39 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > While I will agree that it does not run in a normal manner, it is not > > an infrequent operation. > Erm, fine. So come up with an access method for X that doesn't > require this kind of security bypassing and I'm sure that everyone > will be quite pleased with you. :-) Hmm, well we could port GGI.. Kernel level graphics drivers :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message