Re: [Xen-devel] why the /dev/mem ioctl ?

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Mark A. Williamson wrote:

> The ioctl was used to set the domain whose memory you want /dev/mem to map, 
> for domain builder etc.  I don't know what (if anything) it's used for now...

Cool.  Might be worthwhile to get rid of that piece of code
then, to make merging Xen into the upstream kernel easier.

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan



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