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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>,
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Subject: Re: Question about GLIDE... 
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> 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.

- Jordan


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