On Friday 22 February 2008 07:46:18 Samuel Thibault wrote: > Yes: on Linux ioperm doesn't work above 0x400. On Linux, so as to > access ports above 0x400 you need to use iopl(), that's why ioperm in > cygwin does this. Now, allowing >= 0x400 would be possible in cygwin's > ioperm, but then you'd get problems when using the code on Linux... The > truly proper way is really to use iopl().
On the other hand the iopl() man page specifically says that it shouldn't be used in processes intended to be portable. ;-D Daniel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
