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Mapping Physical Memory
You can use mmap() to create a segment that is a window on physical memory. To do so you create a file descriptor by opening the special file /dev/mem. For more information, see the mem(7) reference page.
Obviously the use of such a segment is nonportable, hardware-dependent, and dependent on the OS release.
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