"Garrett D'Amore" <gdam...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > a) at least N bytes (e.g. 64K, 256K, or maybe 1M) are available for > writing > b) a timer expires -- maybe 10 msec is sufficient? > c) the file is closed > d) a non-sequential write arrives (but, tapes aren't seekable, are > they?)
Blocked tapes are seekable. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code