From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 23 12:00:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA22433 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA22422 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptway.com (apollo.ptway.com [199.176.148.3]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01788 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brianjr.haskin.org (222R1.ptway.com [199.176.148.89]) by ptway.com (8.7.1/3.4W4-PTWAY-sco-ODT3.0) with SMTP id OAA13169 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:52:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970623185732.0068153c@mail.ptway.com> X-Sender: haskin@mail.ptway.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:57:32 -0400 To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org From: Brian Haskin Subject: Re: direct access Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 02:36 AM 6/23/97 -0800, Steve Howe wrote: > >i searched through the maillist archives, >handbook, and faq, and didn't see >much on c-programming i/o basics. >i'm sure it doesn't take an einstein, >but of course, i'm basing that on my >limited knowledge. i've only been >programming since 1981, not 1945, >and i only know about 10 languages, >not 100, and i've only been hacking >FBSD for 2 years ... not 20. > You've been hacking FreeBSD for 2 years and your asking questions like this!?!?! Sorry, but some of your questions sound more like you've never heard of a multitasking multi-user OS before. You really should pick up a book on unix and learn some of the basics here. It will certainly get you alot farther than you've gotten in the past 2 years. Brian Haskin