Re: block devices

2001-12-04 Thread Terry Lambert
character devices now? Looks like all the > > support for block devices is contained in the cdevsw struct. > > Since no userland programs ever really had a good excuse for > accessing block devices they have been retired from /dev. Block > devices still exist, but are only accessable

Re: block devices

2001-12-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
terms of character devices now? Looks like all the >support for block devices is contained in the cdevsw struct. quick answer: yes. :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: block devices

2001-12-04 Thread David Malone
> support for block devices is contained in the cdevsw struct. Since no userland programs ever really had a good excuse for accessing block devices they have been retired from /dev. Block devices still exist, but are only accessable within the kernel. David. To Unsubscribe: send ma

block devices

2001-12-04 Thread Dragon Fire
Quick question, I was trolling around the FreeBSD kernel source and the dev directory and noticed there is no bdevsw structure and no block driver files. Is everything implemented in terms of character devices now? Looks like all the support for block devices is contained in the cdevsw struct