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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:43:39 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Module magic 
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990713204251.044f34f0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19990713211140.8502.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
References:  <199907131631.MAA05152@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990712053316.9028A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <199907120945.TAA09669@cheops.anu.edu.au> <199907121736.NAA01917@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19990713010531.2897.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <199907131631.MAA05152@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Does XAccel for FreeBSD or BSDI still exist? I heard rumors that
they'd dropped all of the BSDs and now only supported Linux.

--Brett

At 07:11 AM 7/14/99 +1000, Greg Black wrote:
>Garrett Wollman writes:
>
> > > Are you saying that X does not work when securelevel >= 0 under
> > > FreeBSD?
> > 
> > That is correct.  X requires direct access to I/O space, which is
> > fundamentally incompatible with the notion of enhanced security.
>
>Can you explain how FreeBSD differs from BSDI in this?  I've
>been running various BSDI releases for years with XiG's XAccel
>and securelevel set to 2 with no problems at all, and I had
>hoped to do the same with FreeBSD (albeit with XFree86 rather
>than XAccel).
>
>-- 
>Greg Black -- <gjb@acm.org> or <gjb@computer.org>
>
>
>
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