>isn't ppdev also good for any emulation (wine,dosemu), where the emulated
>program does direct port access e.g. with inb() and outb(). The emulated
>programm might also want to access the fifo addresses...
No; ppdev isn't supposed to be some stealth version of /dev/port.  If dosemu 
and Wine want to provide enhanced port services, they will need to trap the
I/O accesses and emulate the requested operation at a higher level.  I don't 
imagine there will be all that much call for this, though - DOS programs 
probably won't care about ECP all that much, and Windows ones should be going 
via some kind of device driver anyway.
p.
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