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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