Hi,
Here're patches to implement MINIX File System v3 support in libsa.
Support for MFS is added to the boot2 for i386.
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Evgeniy
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From: Evgeniy Ivanov lolkaanti...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 19:44:33 +0400
Subject:
sys_close guarantees that it has closed the file descriptor when it
returns, even if it returns EINTR. Thus, repeating a call to close(2)
when it returns EINTR is always a mistake on NetBSD, and on other
systems as well such as FreeBSD and Linux. (This conforms to POSIX,
as would an
On ufs (and tmpfs and perhaps others), reading from or writing to a
fifo updates its [acm]time -- even on read-only file systems (although
in that case the changes are not written to disk). It's been this way
since r1.1 of ufs_vnops.c.
Why? Conceptually, what is actually read from the fifo
On ufs (and tmpfs and perhaps others), reading from or writing to a
fifo updates its [acm]time [...]
Note that the same [acm]time updates do not apply to sockets.
Aside from whether this is a good idea, this difference may make sense.
A FIFO is a single shared object; multiple opens result
