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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:37:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        bde@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@FreeBSD.ORG, pst@juniper.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: isdisk() kludge in kernel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980118023651.25526A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199801180329.OAA13387@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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st does not have block devices

On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Bruce Evans wrote:
> This would break at least backups to SCSI tape devices, since st has both
> block and character devices, but tapes aren't disks.  Perhaps the broken
> version is correct - isdisk() really means isasecurityholeifmountable().




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