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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Re: talk to I/O Devices. 
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:30:19 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> control applications! Also, the sample code in previous messages in
> this thread seems to indicate that one can read and write directly.

That's correct.  Opening /dev/io simply grants you the permissions, it
in no way acts as an "I/O gate" or otherwise gets involved in any part
of the transaction after it's opened.  It's just a permissions hack
and nothing more.

					Jordan