Re: low level hardware access

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From: Louis Boyd
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:00

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Eric Reaburn wrote:
> 
> Dear Linux hackers,
> how difficult (easy?) is it to get low-level program access to the serial and
> parallel ports
> on an average pentium PC running Red Hat? Ideally I would like DOS-like
> direct access
> to the hardware, but I guess that's not possible from a "normal" program in
> Linux.

Check the man pages of ioperm(2).  It's fairly easy if you are 
programming in C and have ROOT access.

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From: Louis Boyd <boyd@apt2.sao.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: low level hardware access
Date: 1998/04/21
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