From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:58:44 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] page fault with lock held In-Reply-To: <200504122041.j3CKfdJ12807@augusta.math.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200504122041.j3CKfdJ12807@augusta.math.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 36b93692-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I had wanted to see an sdloopback device (devsdloop was I suppose > what I called it) that could speak SCSI to a file descriptor that > could come from anywhere. Then things like this might not need to > be in the kernel at all. sd has little to do with scsi. in particular, these devices don't speak scsi. russ