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From: Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:38:51AM +0100, Christoph Mallon wrote:
> Userland is not allowed to write to ports. That's the bus error you see. 
> Also without a call to the exit syscall at the end, it will segfault.

Note that you can write to ports from userland by opening /dev/io - if
you have it opened, you can write to the ports.

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Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
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