> I've heard several suggestions involving adding another system call.
>
> I think these are decent ideas, but I would prefer not going around and
> creating system calls willy-nilly. Entries in /proc use existing system
> calls, and also take care of managing permissions, security restrictions,
> etc. (The pciconfig_write system call on alphas can be executed by anyone,
> for example.)
>
> Only problem is, it requires /proc to be configured in. Oh well, I'm not
> the first and won't be the last.
Well, doing this via /proc is much slower. And how do you want to separate
byte, word and longword accesses?
Have a nice fortnight
-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying."