[comp.os.minix] Question about memory access in PC MINIX 1.5.10

u31b3hs@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt) (01/24/91)

From: u31b3hs%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@undido.bitnet

Hello world!

Today, I have only one simple question: Is it possible for a setuid root
process to read and write each memory adress without using /dev/mem or
/dev/kmem? If this possibility exists, it will improve speed of
adressing video memory.  I am interested in two things: Will this be
able in PC MINIX 1.5.10 with a 286 or a 386 processor? If ok, did
someone wrote a short assembler function, callable from c, which
performs this function?

Michael Haardt

(u31b3hs%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet)
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