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- From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (Randy Howard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: info on VFS under Sys V.4?
- Message-ID: <jrh.715612183@mustang>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 13:09:43 GMT
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- felix@escape.vsse.in-berlin.de (Felix the double Helix) writes:
-
- >i'm looking for info on the system v.4 virtual file system. at the present,
- >i have a "binary-only" version of (interactive) system v.4, with the
- >"standard" system v.4 documentation.
-
- >i'm not sure whether there is information publicly available, or just
- >for people with a source-license. but if there's anyone who knows more
- >about vfs internals i'd be happy to get pointers to documentation or a
- >more detailled description of vfs and vfs drivers.
-
- one of the few places I have seen info on it (other than for those with
- a source license) is in the USENIX proceedings from a few years back, and
- it won't tell you everything you need to know. I'm not sure why USL doesn't
- publish the interfaces (this is but one example).
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