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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: These mtv video pauses are murder
In-Reply-To: <199712221735.JAA01241@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Dec 22, 97 09:35:57 am"
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty)
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Amancio Hasty said:
> Hi John,
> 
> does you AIO code now work with a regular file system or do we need
> a raw disk partition to use it?
>
Almost any file descriptor should work, including sockets and regular files.  I
don't think that /dev/mem will work though.

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