Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:11:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.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: <199912240511.VAA00684@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:57:25 PST." <89201.946007845@zippy.cdrom.com>
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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.
It's called i386_set_ioperm(), and it has a manpage too.
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