From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 24 10:05:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA11669 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11620 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:04:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.0/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id TAA24989 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 19:04:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.9.0.Beta4/keltia-2.14/nospam) id IAA03411 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:18:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19980624081814.A3401@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:18:14 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: block devices to disappear! Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199806232113.FAA08470@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.3i In-Reply-To: <199806232113.FAA08470@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 05:13:55AM +0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#4374 AMD-K6 MMX @ 225 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Peter Wemm: > Because they are both pretty much the same thing.. All the block drivers > also have a character interface. The funny thing is that Linux has only _block_ devices if I remember well :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #60: Fri May 15 21:04:22 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message