[clug] /dev/port

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:38:08PM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:03:48PM +1000, Adrian Blake wrote:
> > I am having trouble opening /dev/port . I want to be able to read and write
> > to io addresses that make up the printer port. I can open files but not
> > /dev/port.  Any suggestions
> 
> Amongst the things I don't suggest you do to solve this is 'man /dev/port'.
> Hoping for a manpage about /dev/port, instead my laptop locked hard. >_<
> 
> That's my "dumb things to do to my laptop" for the evening.

Don't run man as root :)

Back to the original question, you need to be root to access /dev/port.
Did you actually look at the error message you got when you tried to
open the file?

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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