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From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 08:24:22 -0600
In-Reply-To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
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On Jul 28,  8:23am, Robert Withrow wrote:
> 
> > Oh great.  One of UNIX's worst abortions, taken to extremes (can you
> > say "ioctl() is a bogus ``API'' for controlling behavior?"  I thought
> > so)..
> 
> You are mistaken.  Everthing is *not* an ioctl.  It instead resembles
> something like the proc filesystem.  Do you think *that* is an
> abortion?

I have to agree with Peter and Robert here.  It seems
to me to be awfully cool to do

	# echo format > /dev/sd0/crtl

to format a disk (and the disk can even be remote)!

--alan