Messages in this thread | | | From | allbery@kf8nh ... | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:27:52 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: Mailbox |
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On 5 Jul, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: +----- | > Also findutils lists S_IFMPB and S_IFMPC as "V7" but you say "Coherent". | > I'm also collecting a list -- could you tell me which is appropriate, | > or is it both: "Coherent & V7". | | The Linux source code mentions them for the SysV filesystem driver. | Coherent is like V7, so it makes sense that both would have these. +--->8
They're the old V7 experimental multiplexed block and character devices; not especially widely used, rather buggy by most reports, and long since superseded by sockets and select(). I'm not sure we need to care about them.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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