Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 17:33:46 -3200 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: peterb@tcptest.psc.edu (Peter Berger) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question: Message-ID: <199512010133.RAA13235@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199512010018.TAA19504@tcptest.psc.edu> from "Peter Berger" at Nov 30, 95 07:18:14 pm
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The ioctls can do things like 'format device' (what do you mean 'mounted' read only) you shouldn't be accessing a device for ioctls when it's 'mounted' (as in mounting a disk partition). > > > what's the rationale for returning EACCES when trying to ioctl a > device mounted read-only? inquiring minds want to know. > > (I encountered this problem with xmcd, which was failing because of > it. I decided it was easier to change the kernel than to compile > Motif, so....) >
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