simh running as root etc

Gordon JC Pearce gordon at gjcp.net
Sun Sep 5 06:12:24 CDT 2004


Vince Mulhollon wrote:

> My way around it, was to compile two copies of the pdp11, one
> plain user prog called pdp11, one with ethernet compiled in
> called pdp11-ether.  If someone wants they can SUID root the
> pdp11-ether, but I'm not going to do it for them.
> I am not an expert pdp11 user but this seems to result in no 
> complaints (whom is an expert on all 32 simh emulators other
> than Bob S ?)

Why does simh need to run as root to do networky stuff?

Gordon.



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