On Oct 18, 2011, at 3:34 55AM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> As I understand, at VFS level, VOP_STRATEGY(9) is used for I/O to block
> devices. Where does that name comes from? 


It's an ancient name -- it appears in 
http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub///mirrors/minnie.tuhs.org/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Dennis_v3/,
which is 3rd Edition Unix that dmr dated to 1973.

                --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb





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