Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:46:04 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/apm apm.c Message-ID: <199907301946.NAA83982@harmony.village.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>
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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
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