From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 6 19:31:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28667 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 19:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@[208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28617 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 19:30:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-124.camalott.com [208.229.74.124]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA00822; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:30:41 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10228; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:30:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:30:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199807070230.VAA10228@detlev.UUCP> To: mike@smith.net.au CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199807062358.QAA01334@dingo.cdrom.com> (message from Mike Smith on Mon, 06 Jul 1998 16:58:12 -0700) Subject: Re: xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted) From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199807062358.QAA01334@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I was about to continue that paragraph, when the question occurred: >> Are there no other userland programs (besides wine and doscmd) that do >> these ops? > Lots of them; there's plenty of low-speed industrial control > applications that dink the hardware directly courtesy of the IOPL bit. Actually, I meant general-purpose apps, not application-specific apps like robotics. But I get the idea. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message