Re: ANNOUNCE: /dev/bios - flash rom bios driver

Jeffrey Hundstad (jeffrey.hundstad@mankato.msus.edu)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:27:59 -0600 (CST)

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On 11 Feb, chip@atlantic.net wrote:
> According to John Labovitz:
>>
>> fd1 = open("/dev/biosguard", O_WRONLY);
>> fd2 = open("/dev/bios", O_WRONLY);
>> write(fd2, newbioscode, newbioscodelen);
>> close(fd2);
>> close(fd1);
>>
>
> I like this even better than my own ioctl guard idea.

or...

write(fd2, newbioscode, newbioscodelen, bioscode_md5sum);

-jeffrey hundstad

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