From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 31 06:16:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA04262 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 06:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA04257 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 06:16:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA11599 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 15:16:22 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA14524 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 15:16:21 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id PAA28368 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Dec 1995 15:15:09 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512311415.PAA28368@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /dev/io To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 15:15:08 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Sujal Patel" at Dec 31, 95 08:02:52 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Sujal Patel wrote: > > I haven't heard any reason why /dev/io is useful or necessary either :) > It seems that just about everything uses KDENABIO to gain IO priviledge. Since the X server code evolved from SysV code, and the X server has certainly been the first one that had a real requirement for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)