Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 08:28:12 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Driver help Message-ID: <199612091428.IAA25901@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:07:48 %2B1030." <199612090537.QAA07561@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Michael Smith writes: > >This implies that SysV doesn't provide the readv/writev interface, correct? Yup, I should have probably said SVR3. I can't figure out whether or not SVR4 has readv/writev, but the Magic Garden book indicates it has uiomove, so that point is probably moot. > >> I've also done similar things with the dma kernel support functions. >> Usually, the driver ends up looking more BSDish than SCOish, but >> isn't that how God intended? ;-) > >*grins* Now, is this documented in the DDWG? > naw, but the whole thing is (still) due for updating. My little stint with propagating userconfig changes to arbitrary kernels learned me up enough to fill in more pages ;-), now just for the time :( >> erich@lodgenet.com > >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ >]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ >]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com
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