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Re: /dev/mem: permission denied
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:35:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: /dev/mem: permission denied
- References: <47FB28E6.4010707@wpkg.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> On the other hand, a patched version of dmidecode (not needing Cygwin
> DLL)[4] works just fine on Windows 2003.
>
> Is there a workaround for /dev/mem: permission denied problem in Cygwin?
If you look at the source code at [4], you will see that it contains an
alternative method using GetSystemFirmwareTable() on 2k3 and Vista,
which doesn't require direct access to physical memory.
Brian
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