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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:52:51 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, 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) 
Message-ID:  <18266.937774371@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:47:31 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191332050.42316-100000@semuta.feral.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191332050.42316-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew
 Jacob writes:

>>     and
>> 	Since bdevs have not been returning write errors for 5+ years
>
>I don't believe that this is necessarily as bad as you make it out to
>because close(2) can (and should) return any collected errors (as it
>should also do for the close of a file in a filesystem :-)).

think linux weenie and floppy disk for a moment...

It certainly violates POLA.

--
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!


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