Re: HW access allowed ?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
3 Apr 1998 10:49:53 GMT

Followup to: <01IVFGZ8UXAA0001QO@rcum.uni-mb.si>
By author: DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> So Linux allows userland programs to access the hardware directly ?
>
> And I thought it is a _real_ O.S. ... :-)
>

Only if run as root. It is quite a reasonable thing for a real OS to
allow *in a controlled fashion*. Doesn't mean it should be used
indiscriminately, of course.

-hpa

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