From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.98.16.136 with SMTP id 8mr8210081pfq.36.1498828271359; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 06:11:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.67.202 with SMTP id s193mr571224itb.9.1498828271274; Fri, 30 Jun 2017 06:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!188no299271itx.0!news-out.google.com!s132ni2645itb.0!nntp.google.com!v202no234180itb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 06:11:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87zicpykz3.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2607:fea8:3ce0:20f:2de9:63f9:413:d1f6; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO NNTP-Posting-Host: 2607:fea8:3ce0:20f:2de9:63f9:413:d1f6 References: <87zicpykz3.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: R/W hardware registers ? From: patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:11:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47225 Date: 2017-06-30T06:11:09-07:00 List-Id: Hi Jacob Thanks for answering my post. I am pretty sure you are right. I knew that D= OS pretty much only has a root user and that user can access parallel ports= and such and I knew that regular Posix users could not access hardware lik= e this but I thought it could be by-passed with root access. However, if that was the case, people could still set pointers to hardware = addresses in C and skip the use of outb(and similar calls). I can bind to ioperm and outb but at this point C is just pestering me. I w= ant to use C when I choose to use it but it just seems to be everywhere and= it won't leave me alone. I just want a break from C, it's more about fun then it is about getting st= uff done. If I find a solution, I will post back to leave a trail of breadcrumbs for = others. Thanks again-Patrick