James Carlson wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore writes:
>
>> If I had a device driver that, for reasons I won't go into here, needed
>> to be STREAMS, could I then add a devmap(9E) entry point to additionally
>> support mmap(2)? (The problem is that for my project, I may have to
>> support two different semantics -- one which relies on STREAMS, the
>> other which must support mmap(2).)
>>
>
> I don't see why not ... have you tried it?
>
>
Not yet. But I think I'm going to very soon. But beyond the "it seems
to work factor", I was hoping to identify "there be dragons" issues, or
other reasons why this approach might be considered a really bad idea.
Joerg's mail response to this about ATM here is informative.
-- Garrett
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