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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:35:36 -0700
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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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