Actually, now that I think about it, writing a device driver library for perl would be exceptionally useful for people actually having to do this horrid task in C. Imagine, being able to whip up one-liner solutions so that you could use Sun's poke, peek,andprobe functions without having to write a whole damn C program.

for example: 

root@brak# perl -MSun::DDI -e 'probe /dev/pcmcia/*'

# is muuuuuuch easier than:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sunddi.h>
#include <thatotherannoyingsunheaderfile.h>

int main (void)
{
  int i_will_save_you_the_agony_of_reading_c_code = 0;
  // ...
}

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I'll let everyone know what I come up with after I read Sun's Writing Device Drivers today. This could be exceptionally useful.

party on,
brother dep.

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