Re: ntp

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:

> Things like adjtime ought to use some mach syscalls. /dev/kmem doesn't
> make sense, as that's a (very low level) interface to the unix kernel,
> and the Hurd doesn't have one.

Just a brief note.  It's true that we shouldn't use /dev/kmem for this
purpose--that is, I totally agree with Niels in his message.

But I want to point out that /dev/kmem is already accessible because
you can read and write pages of the kernel task with vm_read and
vm_write.  It might even be a good idea someday to have someone write
/dev/kmem and /dev/mem devices.