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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 13:20:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, dg@root.com, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: User block device access (was: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/sys vnode.h src/sys/kern vfs_subr.c) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191318570.42254-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <18011.937771504@critter.freebsd.dk>

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> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191254200.42176-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew
>  Jacob writes:
> 
> >
> >Okay, then. Really, seriously, though- if we're all stuck arguing a
> >major issue from different viewpoints for lack of < 1K$ equipment, this is
> >an easy problem to solve from the K$ point of view (hadn't thought about
> >customs- I guess I just can't express mail these puppies, can I? :-))
> 
> You know, only Matt Dillon thought this was a hardware issue, I don't
> think it is. 

Just trying to be helpful...

> 
> Anyway, David (and Kirk through him) has already said their piece, and
> still nobody has named an actual application which depends on bdevs 
> soo...

Isn't that reasoning in reverse? Wouldn't be fairer to state "the problems
that we have in the rest of the system are so large because we allow block
device access to user programs that we must kill off such access?".





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