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gnikniht drawkcab

Posted Jun 7, 2005 7:20 UTC (Tue) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: Files with negative offsets by giraffedata
Parent article: Files with negative offsets

> /dev/kmem_minus where offset = -address .

Now that's a bit silly. You'd have to *reverse* the contents of the
memory in the device driver when reading and writing!

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offset = -address silly

Posted Jun 7, 2005 17:09 UTC (Tue) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

Well, OK. Then: /dev/kmem_upper, where offset = 2^63 + address .