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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2012 19:27:44 -0700
From:      "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@speakeasy.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using inb() and outb()
Message-ID:  <4FBC4B20.8070100@speakeasy.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmKa7BAr1oAAXVT_cVwzhRykqieaWFJF1-5uugfsvV5sQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201205222108.q4ML84Zc070244@mail.r-bonomi.com> <4FBC0458.3060200@speakeasy.org> <CAF6rxgmKa7BAr1oAAXVT_cVwzhRykqieaWFJF1-5uugfsvV5sQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On 05/22/12 17:09, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 22 May 2012 14:25, Thomas D. Dean<tomdean@speakeasy.org>  wrote:
>> On 05/22/12 14:08, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>>
>> That is what I thought.
>>
>> The entire operation will have to run as root.  Nothing will be non-root.
>
> Can you make a SUID helper which only does the inb/outb operations as root?
>

I am planing to move the higher level functions to a driver.

I really want a userland interface to the process.

Tom Dean



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