Re: Shared Mem from mmap areas

Zach Metzinger (wizkid@ksu.edu)
Fri, 5 Dec 1997 18:46:44 -0600


On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 03:54:26PM -0700, teunis wrote:

> > I want to mmap the framebuffer and reg's from the graphiccard in a suid-
> > server and reexport this with shared mem to another not suid=0 programm.
> > is this possible?
>
> Yes - if you setup the client using vm86-functions.
> (dosemu)
> But that doesn't help for native apps....
>
> Otherwise : Please! How? We need this we do :)

You might want to take a look at the Linux GGI project, which will save
you days of work and lots of headaches. I think what you are wanting to
do coincides with the work the GGI group is already well into.

http://synergy.caltech.edu/~ggi/

Zach Metzinger
Unix System Administration
Computing and Network Services
Kansas State University