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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:36:02 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: Re: Accessing disks via their serial numbers.
Message-ID:  <20060627093602.GF714@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060626235845.GD92989@duncan.reilly.home>
References:  <20060626.093240.-432837692.imp@bsdimp.com> <52322.1151337322@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060626235845.GD92989@duncan.reilly.home>

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On Tue, 2006-Jun-27 09:58:45 +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>I don't know if anyone's interested, but I started to have a
>look at Minix-3 the other day. ...
>  You open /dev/tcp, do ioctl's to make a connection
>and then read()/write() to send and receive data.

That sounds similar to the SysV approach - you open a device
and push a collection of streams modules.

I'm not sure that ioctl() is any better than bind/connect etc -
a process still needs special code if it's to be network-aware.
IMHO, the portal filesystem provides a far more interesting
approach.

--=20
Peter Jeremy

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