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/dev/mem anyone?
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: /dev/mem anyone?
- From: vischne at ibm dot net
- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 00:42:15 GMT
The djgpp system elected to implement a library of calls to the DPMI
(Dos Protected Mode) interface in Windows, and this allows them to
port Unix applications that call on /dev/mem. However, such ports
are really partial rewrites of the original source code.
It would be a whole lot more elegant to implement /dev/mem in the cygwin.dll
so that Unix programs that call file open, close, and seek functions that
involve /dev/mem will work properly. And, that would serve to distinguish
the cygnus.com approach from the djgpp approach.
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