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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/io 
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 12:06:52 -0800
From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" said:
 > > For what it's worth, the XFree86 servers get I/O permission by using
 > > the KDENABIO ioctl in the console driver rather than by opening /dev/io.
 > 
 > My mistake then.  Didn't they use /dev/io at some point?  I could have
 > sworn I saw this used there once!
 > 

Nope , not as far as I can remember . 

	Amancio