SIMH & root

[Zane H. Healy]

>Speaking of SIMH..
>
>SIMH requires root privileges to do its networking (at least on most of
>its unix host OS's), understandably, but I'm not happy with it...

I'm not happy with this either.  The same problem exists with KLH10. 
The best solution I've seen is a special "hardened" Linux distro on 
CD that you boot from to run the emulator.  I've not gotten that 
motivated.

In any case, yes, send Bob the patches!

		Zane

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