Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:22:13 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> 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: <89675.946012933@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:11:50 PST." <199912240511.VAA00684@mass.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.
Tada! Give that man a chocolate chip cookie! :-)
- Jordan
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