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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 09:25:01 +0200
To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
From: Gerd Truschinski <agni@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: /dev/io
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At 00:21 27.06.98 -0500, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> I am running current from around 11. May.
>> I try to open /dev/io as user 'dose.wheel' with the following permissions:
>>  crw-rw----  1 dose  wheel    2,  14 Mar 24 13:14 /dev/io
>> but get always 'Operation not permitted' errors. I must be root.
>> Is the man page to old or did I miss something?
>
>Can you please tell us the exact operation you tried?  A code snippet
>would be nice.
>

        dev_file = open("/dev/io", O_RDWR);
        if (dev_file == -1) {
                perror("open /dev/io ");
                exit (errno);
        }
And I get:
  open /dev/io : Operation not permitted

/gT/
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