Re: Question about GLIDE...

[Mike Smith]

> > 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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