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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: pipes & ptys
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 9:58:17 MET
- In-Reply-To: <9310201804.AA00159@jelal.north.de>; from "Juergen Lock" at Oct 20, 93 07:04:42 pm
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- Juergen Lock,
-
- > well if you dup2() the new device to the programs' /dev/aux... but
- > since Bcon* still is single-char IO programs that use it will still
- > be big CPU time eaters so you might want to get rid of them anyway. :-)
-
- THAT will obviously be the biggest problem, I think, although not for me :-)
- since I doubt I've got any of those... I think that's called "compatibility",
- must have heard that somewhere :-)
-
- Well, bcon*()'s would then have to be converted to fwrite(1,...) calls to
- the new device driver. Hmmm, that' not the way it's done at the moment,
- isn't it?
-
- > > ... So you won't need an extra system call, but just a new device
- > > driver for the biosfs...
- >
- > hmm looks i was not clear enough again :) that was exactly my point 4...
-
- Yes, looks like I didn't understand it. In my opinion with the above mentioned
- changes you won't need it AND are still backwards compatible.
-
- bye,
- TeSche
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