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- Subject: Re: pipes & ptys -- oops...
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 23:29:20 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- Message-Id: <9310202229.AA00288@jelal.north.de>
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- Juergen Lock writes:
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- > > ... 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...
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- after reading that again i think i know what caused confusion...
- the bread/brwite i was talking about are not new system calls but
- just new (optional) calls in the kernel <-> device driver interface!
- user processes would of course see no difference other than Fread/write
- getting faster...
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- cheers
- Juergen
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