From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 13 1:12:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF4637B405 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 01:12:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0136.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.136] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16avT5-0000zf-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 01:12:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3C6A2E05.3EEEA6DA@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 01:12:37 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip Wiegand Cc: freebsd-chat Subject: Re: file types References: <20020212170006.1d2f9c8a.chip@wiegand.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chip Wiegand writes: > I am reading a unix book - Using Unix 3rd Ed by Kuo - and have a > question regarding file types. He mentions the two main types of block > device files are character and block. FreeBSD doesn't have block devices. If you are using one of the millions of software packages from the Internet, you will have to modify it to use device aligned buffer I/O, effectively duplicating the block device functionality in each and every user space program instead. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message