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From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Device Drivers
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Date: 1 Feb 93 16:55:59 GMT
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I've just been trolling through some of the source for 386bsd, specifically
the floppy driver and the VFS code.

I'm aware of the standard *open, *close, *read etc routines, but what
is the function of the *strategy routines?


						Lee Essen.