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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 1997 23:37:19 +0100
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FYI: usage of new AIO calls
Message-ID:  <19971201233719.25782@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199712012057.NAA12418@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 01:57:54PM -0700
References:  <199712011926.OAA00376@dyson.iquest.net> <199712012057.NAA12418@mt.sri.com>

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As Nate Williams wrote:

> What is a VCHR device?

A `raw', or `character' (misnomer -- you can only write in blocks to
it if it's a disk :) device.

John is too much tied to the VM code to forget that there are also
other names for it. ;-)  VCHR is actually the member of an enum in
<sys/vnode.h>, the kernel constant used for a vnode of type S_IFCHR.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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