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SubjectRe: HW access allowed ?
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Followup to:  <01IVFGZ8UXAA0001QO@rcum.uni-mb.si>
By author: DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> So Linux allows userland programs to access the hardware directly ?
>
> And I thought it is a _real_ O.S. ... :-)
>

Only if run as root. It is quite a reasonable thing for a real OS to
allow *in a controlled fashion*. Doesn't mean it should be used
indiscriminately, of course.

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