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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: /dev/io
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 10:37:09 +1100 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <2025.820439728@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 31, 95 11:55:28 am
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>> 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!

No.  I'd thought about changing to use /dev/io, but it has never been
used by the XFree86 servers.

David