From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 1 13:54:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA23400 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:54:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA23394 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:54:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA22845; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:54:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA12784; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:54:44 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:54:44 -0700 Message-Id: <199712012154.OAA12784@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: usage of new AIO calls In-Reply-To: <199712012149.QAA05084@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199712012129.OAA12636@mt.sri.com> <199712012149.QAA05084@dyson.iquest.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I wrote: > What is a VCHR device? John replied: > VCHR files are character devices that you would see the 'c' in the > first column for 'ls -l'. Ahh, character special devices. SEF also pointed this out to me right after I got this email. I know what those are, but I've never heard them distinguished as VCHR devices. I'm all better now, must have been too much Turkey. *grin* > If you know what the AIO/LIO functions are for, and have software that One more question. AIO == Asynchronous I/O, but LIO? Nate