Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:40:04 -0800 (PST) From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/24786: missing FILES descriptions in sa(4) Message-ID: <200102091940.f19Je4T05186@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/24786; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, julian@freebsd.org,
mjacob@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/24786: missing FILES descriptions in sa(4)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:35:29 -0800
So I gather that the device is ALWAYS used in "raw" mode, so there
is really no need for an explicit "r" designation. Getting rid of
the "r" versions cleans things up a lot, so it works for me...
Regarding the ".[0-3]" extensions, I am still perplexed. It sounds
like the mode bits are overloaded with the [en] designations, as:
/dev/sa0.0 Corresponds to sub-mode 00 (i.e., /dev/sa0)
/dev/sa0.1 Corresponds to sub-mode 01 (i.e., /dev/nsa0)
/dev/sa0.2 Corresponds to sub-mode 10 (i.e., /dev/esa0)
But if that's true, I don't understand how there can be names such as
ersa0.0. Finally, mode 3 is actually being created by MAKEDEV, but it
is not mentioned as a possibility by the man page. What's going on?
-r
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