Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:01:25 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, dg@root.com, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Subject: Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/sp Message-ID: <XFMail.990920140125.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990919212227.21537@hydrogen.fircrest.net>
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This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990920140125:17161=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 20-Sep-99 John-Mark Gurney wrote: > hmmm... I think that the application should recieve a signal of some > sort (such as SIGBUS) if the mmap'd area can't be synced because of a > write error, of course we would need to have a mechanism for the > application to find out about the problem... Sort of like an out of bound data stream like sockets which you read error structs from.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990920140125:17161=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQCVAwUBN+W4nVbYW/HEoF9pAQGvNQP+Id6UIx27Vh/O7uZ8bxtUEo21eioBRCvN NVg/MLIsMCdjv7Sz2x3A4C7nKmZvVjx/Al1u4Wijune5KJ7No3fzyMT2QopKHDvm roayWMIGbvAuZoeOr2xknm4tIj/90b4nNwtrTJjtdeoHfLL3F4CLA6OB/8kPLGYt LMCwR3wV5Gg= =Eh1S -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --_=XFMail.1.3.1.p0.FreeBSD:990920140125:17161=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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