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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:44:17 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: /dev/zero & /dev/full FSEXTs
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Richard Dawe wrote:
> > > > + #include <sys/xdevices.h>
> > >
> > > Is this header used on other platforms?
> >
> > No, it just seemed like a good name. It does not exist on Linux.
> 
> If other platforms have headers for these purposes, let's use the same
> names.  If no popular platform has a header for this, it's okay to use
> any name you fancy, including xdevices.h.

I checked SunOS 5.5.1 (aka Solaris 2.5.1) and Digital Unix 4.0. Neither of
them had sys/xdevices.h, so it doesn't look like the names will clash.
They both had headers for device data, but neither looked like valid
locations for __install_dev_{zero,full}().

So, sys/xdevices.h it is.

> > Thanks for the comments, Eli.
> 
> Thank _you_ for doing the work.

You're welcome!

Bye, Rich =]

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