From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 1 14:39:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA27039 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:39:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA27014 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:39:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA09075 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:39:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id XAA11606; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:37:19 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971201233719.25782@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:37:19 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: usage of new AIO calls Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <199712011926.OAA00376@dyson.iquest.net> <199712012057.NAA12418@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199712012057.NAA12418@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 01:57:54PM -0700 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > What is a VCHR device? A `raw', or `character' (misnomer -- you can only write in blocks to it if it's a disk :) device. John is too much tied to the VM code to forget that there are also other names for it. ;-) VCHR is actually the member of an enum in , the kernel constant used for a vnode of type S_IFCHR. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)