From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 27 09:36:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAEF016A400 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:36:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail03.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail03.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20FFA43D53 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:36:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail03.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5R9a35V001624 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:36:04 +1000 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5R9a3Kl001407; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:36:03 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k5R9a2rD001406; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:36:02 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:36:02 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Andrew Reilly Message-ID: <20060627093602.GF714@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20060626.093240.-432837692.imp@bsdimp.com> <52322.1151337322@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060626235845.GD92989@duncan.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gdTfX7fkYsEEjebm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060626235845.GD92989@duncan.reilly.home> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Re: Accessing disks via their serial numbers. X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:36:14 -0000 --gdTfX7fkYsEEjebm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-Jun-27 09:58:45 +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: >I don't know if anyone's interested, but I started to have a >look at Minix-3 the other day. ... > You open /dev/tcp, do ioctl's to make a connection >and then read()/write() to send and receive data. That sounds similar to the SysV approach - you open a device and push a collection of streams modules. I'm not sure that ioctl() is any better than bind/connect etc - a process still needs special code if it's to be network-aware. IMHO, the portal filesystem provides a far more interesting approach. --=20 Peter Jeremy --gdTfX7fkYsEEjebm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEoPwB/opHv/APuIcRAgP+AKC3NvAjA3LXsU19AfQoD1kPM4T7UACeN9x9 QVP9Aebo76Fz6h61ro6RtMU= =LN9l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gdTfX7fkYsEEjebm--