Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 22:39:04 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, julian@whistle.com Cc: bde@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, pst@juniper.net Subject: Re: isdisk() kludge in kernel Message-ID: <199801181139.WAA26672@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>st does not have block devices > >On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Bruce Evans wrote: >> This would break at least backups to SCSI tape devices, since st has both >> block and character devices, but tapes aren't disks. Perhaps the broken >> version is correct - isdisk() really means isasecurityholeifmountable(). Yes it does. They aren't created by MAKEDEV, and probably don't work, but st.c has a bdevsw entry. Bruce
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