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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: John's latest VM commit. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 01:48:53 PST."
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Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 13:12:41 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.980106014540.10245B-100000@current1.whistle.com>, Jul
ian Elischer writes:

>why am I so unsurpised at your appearance here :)

Hey, don't say I'm not fighting your case!

Well, my case too I guess :-)

>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..
>;-)

patience.

>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.

Well, if everybody else evacuates struct buf we can mold it to
our ideas...  The main obstruction currently is the hideous size
it has.


--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."