Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:51:31 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "gs_stoller@juno.com" <gs_stoller@juno.com> Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) Message-ID: <20060213065131.GI2090@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20060212.223121.2703.256080@webmail13.nyc.untd.com> References: <20060212.223121.2703.256080@webmail13.nyc.untd.com>
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In the last episode (Feb 13), gs_stoller@juno.com said: > > I don't really understand what it is you're looking for, but the source > > code for *all* the FreeBSD `programs' is available at: > > > http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ > > > It's also available through FTP, CVS, CVSup and is distributed as part > > of the official release CD-ROMs. > > > You can look for yourself, any time :) > > Is there a find command [that takes patterns] so if I know the name > (or part of the name) of a program of interest, I can find out the > directory path to it so I can find it easily. Also, where do I look > for the basic sector i/o programs (the ones that underly the > file-system, they are eventually called just before the hardware does > the i/o] and what are their names? In usderland, they're called open, lseek, read, and write. Just open the raw disk device and treat it like a regular file, and remember you need to access it in 512-byte chunks. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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