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Date:      Sun, 31 May 1998 04:50:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Hans Huebner <hans@huebner.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/6799: problem with open(2) in libc_r and opening tape device
Message-ID:  <199805311150.EAA10214@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/6799; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hans Huebner <hans@huebner.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, ian@nmsu.edu
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/6799: problem with open(2) in libc_r and opening tape device
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 13:47:20 +0200

 Apparently, the observed behaviour is a result of libc_r's attempt to
 switch the file descriptor to the tape device into asynchronous mode.
  As of now, neither the old nor the CAM SCSI subsystem support that.
 This holds true for any SCSI device, not only tapes, which renders
 FreeBSD's SCSI subsystem inaccessible to multithreaded applications.
 
 This requires substantial work to make it properly work, and it is
 unclear whether this would be warranted for the old SCSI subsystem (iff
 CAM makes it into 3.0).
 
 -Hans
 
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