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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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