From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 1 12:58:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA16628 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:58:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA16612 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:57:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA22425; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:57:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA12418; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:57:54 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:57:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199712012057.NAA12418@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: usage of new AIO calls In-Reply-To: <199712011926.OAA00376@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199712011926.OAA00376@dyson.iquest.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This code is NOT pretty, but does show example usage. The code will > likely have problems on SMP kernels (unless you are writing to a VCHR > device.) What is a VCHR device? You mention it quite a lot in the commit messages, but I have no idea what it is, unless it's like a acronym cross combining VHS and VCR. :) Nate