From: fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO?
Date: 1997/03/02
Date: 1997-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5fb14p$qfb@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.857270209@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Richard Kenner said
>
><<Not only that, but consider writing an "fsck" in Ada. There the disk
>is a single file, and many disks are larger than 2GB.>>
>
>Somehow, methinks that someone writing fsck in Ada might possibly NOT
>decide to use Direct_IO as the implementation vehicle :-)
Why not?
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-11 0:00 How to hide instantiation of Direct_IO? Dale Stanbrough
1997-02-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1997-03-01 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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