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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>,
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Subject: Re: request for review 
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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 ?
> 
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