That's about what I figured as far as priveledged mode goes. I didn't
know that the include file was for kernel comp. only though, and I
haven't seen any contrary evidence so you are probably right. Guess
it's driver writing time for me :) Thanks.
weston
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T. Weston Sewell
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On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Paul Sack wrote:
> This probably isn't the answer you were hoping for:
>
> As far as I remember from Operating Systems, doing things like clearing or
> setting interrupts requires being in privileged mode in the CPU. Being
> root does not get you that. (this is why code run as root can still
> segfault, etc.) You basically need to write a device driver IOW.
>
> The include file you were referring to is only meant for kernel
> compilation AFAIK.
>
> HTH.
>
> Paul
>
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