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From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/sp
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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..

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