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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] add helper for highmem checks
    On 02/11/2013 02:34 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
    > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:44:12AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    >> Oh, craptastic. X used to hash /dev/mem to get a random seed. It
    >> should have stopped that long ago, and used /dev/[u]random.
    >
    > That's because debian still has this WINGs window manager which hasn't
    > seen any new releases since 2005: http://voins.program.ru/wdm/ and I'm
    > using it because I don't want the pompous crap of the other display
    > managers.
    >
    > But this one uses /dev/mem as a randomFile only by default - there's a
    > configuration variable DisplayManager.randomFile which can be pointed
    > away from /dev/mem so that's easily fixable.
    >
    > Mind you, I wouldnt've caught the issue if I wasn't using this ancient
    > thing in its default settings :o).
    >

    The X server itself used to do that. Are you saying that wdm is a
    *privileged process*?

    -hpa



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