Need help in accessing physical address in Unix
John Bruner
jdb at mordor.UUCP
Tue Dec 10 13:04:38 AEST 1985
In article <612 at unisoft.UUCP> paul at unisoft.UUCP (n) writes:
> Someone suggested the PHYS(2) system call for accessing physical
> +
>addresses from user processes. This is a Uniplus 'feature', not a System
>V 'feature'.
Although the semantics may have been different, wasn't phys() a
V7 "feature"? I remember writing a reboot program for the PDP-11
that used this system call.
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John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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