Cannot get I/O permissions

[Pei Lin]

2011/4/2 Sengottuvelan S <sengottuvelan.s at gmail.com>:
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Sengottuvelan S <sengottuvelan.s at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am trying to access /dev/mem in my user process. I could not access
Check the kernel config CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
>> because not a privileged access. I tried to use iopl(3) call in linux 2.6,
>> but i am getting unresolved symbol for this.  Is any other way to get access
>> in user process. I am not sure how to solve this. Can you someone throw some
>> light on this.
>>
>>    if(iopl(3)){
>>         fprintf(stderr, "Cannot get I/O permissions (being root helps)");
>>         return -1;
>>     }
>>
>>   if ((fd = open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR | O_SYNC)) < 0) {
>>         fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open /dev/mem");
>>         return -1;
>>     }
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> S. Sengottuvelan.
>
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> Regards,
> S. Sengottuvelan.
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Lin