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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:01:52 +0200 (SAST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
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To: Myrddin Ambrosius <imipak@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Drivers, Hardware, and their relationship to Bagels.
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On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Myrddin Ambrosius wrote:

> If you can blithely ignore restrictions placed by the
> kernel on some piece of hardware, and access it
> directly, then surely this would apply to any
> hardware. Including disk drives, RAM, etc.

iopl(2), chmod(1) and friends, hardware frobbing isn't a free for all. 
Then again if you're root...

Regards,
	Zwane Mwaikambo

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