Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:31:52 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Theo van Klaveren <havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about GLIDE... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912232130010.61026-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199912240511.VAA00684@mass.cdrom.com>
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well this one was obviously announced with a lot of fanfare! I'm glad to see it however! On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Though doug didn't say so, I think the equivalent code in freeBSD is > > > > > > if ((fd = open("/dev/io",O_RDWR,0)) == -1) { > > > ERROR... > > > } > > > > Correct, and I find it a little embarassing. I mean god, what a hack! :-) > > There has just *got* to be a better way of granting (and checking for) > > this privilege. > > It's called i386_set_ioperm(), and it has a manpage too. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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