From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Apr 1 17:21:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 432E237B71A for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA26093; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:21:16 -0700 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:21:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Michael Richards Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who wrote the loader In-Reply-To: <3AC7C474.00002B.59989@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It might have been Doug Rabson who wrote this original code. I'm not really sure. Thanks for tracking this down. On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Michael Richards wrote: > Hi everyone. > > The work on the SRM loader continues. I've got the problem very > narrowed down. Every time open() in libstand is called, it ends up > calling devopen(). I'm still trying to figure out why... devopen ends > up calling prom_open which is causing the actual problem on the > AS1200. > > I am continuing to work on this tonight, but does anyone know why the > standard open call would be trying to open the block device? My guess > is that when it was ported this code detected calls to open block > devices and sets the f_flags F_RAW flag if this is the case. > > Who would have written this code? I'm just wondering if someone out > there can add (or change) my understanding off the top of their heads. > > -Michael > _________________________________________________________________ > http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Free Web Email for Canadians To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message