As Stefan Huerter wrote:
> ist es auch nicht, Stefan Esser meinte bei einem Telefonat, daß da wohl
> ne calculation etwas durcheinander gerät... Sowas sollte normalerweise
> abgefangen werden.
Poul-Henning hatte mal den Gedanken, daß man nur eine Klasse von
Devices überhaupt noch benötigen würde. Die kann sich dann
normalerweise wie ein raw device verhalten und der mount(2)-Syscall
benutzt automatisch stattdessen intern einen anderen Eintrittspunkt, der
den buffer cache ins Spiel bringt.
Einfach gesagt, nun muß es ,,nur noch'' jemand implementieren.
> > UTSL. ;-)
>
> DIE Abkürzung kenn ich noch nicht. ???
:UTSL: // /n./ [Unix] On-line acronym for `Use the Source, Luke' (a
pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!" in "Star
Wars") -- analogous to {RTFS} (sense 1), but more polite. This
is a common way of suggesting that someone would be better off
reading the source code that supports whatever feature is causing
confusion, rather than making yet another futile pass through the
manuals, or broadcasting questions on Usenet that haven't attracted
{wizard}s to answer them.
Once upon a time in {elder days}, everyone running Unix had
source. After 1978, AT&T's policy tightened up, so this
objurgation was in theory appropriately directed only at associates
of some outfit with a Unix source license. In practice, bootlegs
of Unix source code (made precisely for reference purposes) were so
ubiquitous that one could utter it at almost anyone on the network
without concern.
Nowadays, free Unix clones have become widely enough distributed
that anyone can read source legally. The most widely distributed
is certainly Linux, with variants of the NET/2 and 4.4BSD
distributions running second. Cheap commercial Unixes with source
such as BSD/OS are accelerating this trend.
-- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo(at)de.FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe de-bsd-questions" in the body of the messageReceived on Tue 02 Mar 1999 - 10:50:58 CET