From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 00:27:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10107 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:27:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10094; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:27:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20532; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:57:09 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA12225; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:57:08 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980127185708.25174@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:57:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Amancio Hasty Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith , doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au, joelh@gnu.org, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File I/O in kernel land (was: Re: 2nd warning: 2.2.6 BETA begins in 10 days!) References: <199801270720.CAA00625@dyson.iquest.net> <199801270810.AAA08443@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801270810.AAA08443@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 12:10:21AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 12:10:21AM -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> I know that it seems to be complicated, but not really worse than doing >> I/O in user-land on VMS :-). > > Oh, I don't know I had good time with VMS... Don't worry about it. I didn't know I had a good time with VMS, either :-) Greg