From owner-cvs-all Sun Sep 19 13: 8:17 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C522D151C8; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:07:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA18013; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:05:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Matthew Dillon , dg@root.com, Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:56:03 PDT." Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:05:04 +0200 Message-ID: <18011.937771504@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message , Matthew Jacob writes: > >Okay, then. Really, seriously, though- if we're all stuck arguing a >major issue from different viewpoints for lack of < 1K$ equipment, this is >an easy problem to solve from the K$ point of view (hadn't thought about >customs- I guess I just can't express mail these puppies, can I? :-)) You know, only Matt Dillon thought this was a hardware issue, I don't think it is. Anyway, David (and Kirk through him) has already said their piece, and still nobody has named an actual application which depends on bdevs soo... But if Matt can make mmap on raw devices do something neat, that would be very nice to have if you need that sort of thing... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message