From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 22:39:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7984B16A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:39:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from post5.inre.asu.edu (post5.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8B843FB1 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:39:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from James.Sarrett@asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post5.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) id <0HNV00A0194Q46@asu.edu> for freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:38:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.asu.edu (smtp.asu.edu [129.219.110.107]) by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) with ESMTP id <0HNV005G394Q85@asu.edu> for freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:38:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from asu.edu (sss24-12.inre.asu.edu [129.219.101.211]) (8.12.10/8.12.10/asu_smtp_relay,nullclient,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id hA56cdS8028197 for ; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:38:44 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:38:51 -0700 From: James Sarrett To: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: this is the wrong place to ask this i know, but just the same... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 06:39:45 -0000 Since you guys are skilled code monkeys, i figured you'd probably know the awnser. What facilities does fBSD provide from a user program doing something like this (admittedly probably incorrect code): void writemem() { int address,value,i; address << cin; value << cin; *i = address; i=value; } As a way for a program to write to any specified address, i.e. to change a umask of a running process or something. Thanks in advance -James -------------------------------------------- "Never trust a man who can count to 1024 on his fingers" --------------------------------------------