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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:16:38 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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FreeBSD@jovi.net wrote:
> If write were to sometimes read rather than report EROFS
> we'd expect that to be prominently and frequently documented!

Write on a non-page boundary *will* read, and then the write
will fail if the device is read-only.

-- Terry

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