simh running as root etc

From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordon_at_gjcp.net>
Date: Sun Sep 5 06:12:24 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.
Received on Sun Sep 05 2004 - 06:12:24 BST