On Tue, 17 May 2016 11:44:03 +0100, scott wrote:

>> ... or you might look to see if the Raspbian kernel has "capabilities"
>> functionality that would let you grant a non-
>> root user access to the GPIO pins.
> 
> I did look this up previously, and the solution seemed to be to change
> the permissions of the entire memory map, so that non-root users could
> access it. I don't like the sound of that either :)

Yeah, that sounds like overkill to me. I haven't done a lot with 
capabilities myself (it's been a few years, too, when I was contracting 
for a company that did a lot of work in Linux kernel process and resource 
management - some pretty cool tech that unfortunately is now defunct 
because the company went out of business - the kernel mods were OSS, but 
the control daemons were all proprietary).

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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