Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:51:13 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: adapter, what's in a name |
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I wrote: > - There are other types of ABIs for I/O (character device files, block > device files), message-based(?) I/O (netlink), configuration (configfs), > and more.
PS: Device files are not only suitable for bulk I/O via read and write, they are also capable of event notification by means of poll and select and of other kinds of I/O like configuration related I/O by means of ioctl. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- --=- =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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