Linux had no char device last I looked.. everything is always buffered this may have changed, but ....
On Sat, 1 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 30 April 1999 at 20:51:06 -0700, Matt Jacob wrote: > >> > >> I don't really understand why you ask a FreeBSD group about it; it's a > >> Linux issue. FWIW, about the only area where you're liable to run > >> into difficulties is in the disk label handling round line 300, which > >> is pretty peripheral to the function: it's just there as one way of > >> finding out the size of the partition. You'll need in-depth Linux > >> information to even find out if Linux has an equivalent function. > > > > Open the device, and > > > > if (ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE, (caddr_t) &seeklim) < 0) { > > > > see <linux/fs.h> > > Thanks for the info. Looking at this, it looks as if this ioctl is > for a block device. rawio uses character devices. Does that make a > difference? > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message