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From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: SCO buffer addressing
Keywords: SCO buffer
Message-ID: <1991May28.154355.5924@prl.dec.com>
Date: 28 May 91 15:43:55 GMT
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Reply-To: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
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Perhaps it's a more general System V problem as the high bit
of `b_dev' may be set depending on the file-system type.  There's
some hideous macro `bmajor()' that will mash off that bit.  Use
it instead of major().

The bit is required to determine the block size of the I/O blah blah
inside the driver.  The whole thing is a steaming crock of merde...


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

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