From owner-cvs-all Sun Sep 19 13:56:14 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 E357715585; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:56:07 -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 WAA18268; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:52:51 +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 13:47:31 PDT." Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 22:52:51 +0200 Message-ID: <18266.937774371@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message , 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message