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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>
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Subject: Re: isdisk() kludge in kernel
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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().