Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 16:32:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005081631510.11754-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20000508165348.A9796@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 08), Warner Losh said: > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005071107200.7876-100000@beppo.feral.com> Matthew Jacob writes: > > : Oh, and in the updating of this, don't forget the FreeBSD usage of > > : .ctl for tape devices- as far as I know this is the only *BSD that > > : has this. > > > > Which devices use .ctl? sa and ast don't seem to use them now (at > > the very least they aren't created by MAKEDEV by default). > > *.ctl is handy for getting status on a device that another process has > open; if I'm dumping to /dev/nrsa0, I can run "mt -f /dev/rsa0.ctl > status" on another tty and see what file/block position the tape is at. > Dunno if it has any other use :) Eventually it will have/set more extended error information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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