[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] OpenBSD MTRR support

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:13:27PM -0500, Ian Lindsay wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:40:26PM +0100, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> > it's obviously not, any better ideas? at least prefix that mem_fd with
> > dha_ or something, less pollution on common names
> 
> here's the patch with dha_ prefix for a different flavour of namespace
> pollution. the issue is that you can't open /dev/xf86 multiple times
> or continue to use mmap'ed region after closing it.

this makes openbsd very broken and insecure. keeping fd open after
mmap is a very bad practice from a security standpoint. i don't think
we should include ugly hacks like this to support a broken os...
aren't there other ways of making it work anyway? if nothing else,
make a module like dhahelper/svgalib_helper for openbsd...

rich