From owner-cvs-all Fri Jul 30 12:44:36 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0821A15214; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:44:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA77237; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:44:12 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA83982; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:46:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199907301946.NAA83982@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/apm apm.c Cc: Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:33:39 PDT." <199907301933.MAA00684@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199907301933.MAA00684@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:46:04 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199907301933.MAA00684@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : Only root can use the bpf device, yet there are screams of protest : every time people talk about that too. So? For bpf people can point to a body of knowledge that shows why this is bad. Yet I've not seen what the implications that you see for this are. : It wouldn't work because the arguments to the BIOS connector changed; : it wasn't too hard to copy them back and forth from the "old" ones. OK. I've not looked at the new one. I'll have to check it out for myself. : > Right now there are a couple of information producing programs that : > use this interface. : : Where? I've seen one that produces information from some Toshiba specific APM hooks. It isn't in the tree. I thought that I had added this IOCTL to the man page for apm.4, but it appears that I was remiss in that. It certainly was intended to be a supported interface. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message