Query regarding write system call.

2009-05-16 Thread Abhiman Yashpal Karkera
Hi all, I am a newbie to Freebsd OS. I had a query regarding performing writes onto a disk. Generally when we want to write some data we first copy the data from the processes user space to the kernel buffer and hand this buffer to the device driver who then goes and initiated a write to the h/w.

Re: Query regarding write system call.

2009-05-16 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 16 May 2009, Abhiman Yashpal Karkera wrote: Hi all, I am a newbie to Freebsd OS. I had a query regarding performing writes onto a disk. Generally when we want to write some data we first copy the data from the processes user space to the kernel buffer and hand this buffer to the