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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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why am I so unsurpised at your appearance here :)


On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> YES!!!!
> 
> Struct buf should just be the way you explain to a (block)-devicedriver
> what you want it to do.  This links right into Julians slice code :-)

That kind-of presumes that I'm ever allowed to check it in..
;-)

My present slice code does use bufs as they are now for
IO but that's because they are trying to co-exist with older code.
if I was freed from that constraint they could quite easily
go the way we discussed.

julian