> well this one was obviously announced with a lot of fanfare!
> I'm glad to see it however!
It was announced, and has been referenced many times subsequently. It's
only been in the tree since mid-1998, and I suspect that the usual
blindness to improvement that greets so many of these little upgrades has
erased it from most peoples' memories.
(I can even recall bde complaining that the interface wasn't so great
(which is true)).
> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > > > 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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