From owner-cvs-all Sun May 7 16:43:19 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453E637B540; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12398; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:52:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005072352.QAA12398@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Greg Lehey Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 May 2000 08:53:38 +0930." <20000508085337.C61488@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 16:52:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sunday, 7 May 2000 at 14:47:07 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > msmith 2000/05/07 14:47:07 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > share/man/man4 sa.4 > > Log: > > For tape devices, 'r' means REWIND, not RAW. > > So /dev/nrsa0 is the no rewind rewind drive? R = Rewind, NR = No Rewind. > >From 4.4BSD: > > FILES > /dev/rmt* Raw magnetic tape interface > > There used to be a block interface for the 'mt' driver, so the drives > got names like /dev/mt8 and /dev/rmt8. I think we need to get rid of > the 'r', like we did with disks. *shrug* Obviously, I think that violates POLA (it'd certainly A me), but if there's consensus on this it should probably be done properly (changing the manpage and not changing MAKEDEV gave me to assume that there was no consensus). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message