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Re: autoconf && hardware
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: autoconf && hardware |
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Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:38:24 +0100 |
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Warren Young <address@hidden> writes:
|> Dirk wrote:
|> > how can i make autoconf probe for a parallel port?
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|> Any particular OS, or "all of them"? :)
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|> On a Linux box, I'd probably dig around in /proc to find a way to list
|> parallel ports and then write the shell code necessary to make sure the
|> /proc entry exists and contains the expected info.
On any Unix box you wouldn't be doing that in the first place. Accessing
the hardware is the job of the kernel.
Andreas.
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