Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:35:42 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: request for review Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201171334230.82675-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <607.1011295587@critter.freebsd.dk>
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This number is occasionally used to indicate the minimum size that can be written to the device. (or multiples of that). for a lot of devices that number would be 1, no? On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020116155420.N487-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: > >On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > >> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: > >> > POSIX.1-2001 specifies st_blksize. > >> > >> Great, right after I get POSIX.1-1996 ;) So how does it specify st_blksize, > >> then? > > > >The same as the quote from www.opengroup.org in the comment in vn_stat(). > >It says nothing important that isn't in that quote. > > Well, the one thing missing in this thread is the concensus on > what value to return when no value can be said to make any amount > of sense for devices in general and zero is considered illegal. > > What's the verdict ? > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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