cfreelist info

[John F Haugh II]

In article <2022 at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au> boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>`c_size' contains the size of the cblock data in bytes (ie CLSIZE).

I knew that much - I wanted to know "why".

>The only reason I could think of them doing this is to enable dynamic
>sizing of the cblocks.

This seems to be one of the commonly given reason.  I've not read the
more recent AT&T device driver writer's guides to know what they have
to say.  The XENIX device driver supplement gives 'c_size' as the
buffer size, but isn't specific about cfreelist.c_size, which is
actually a different structure type anyhow ...

Thanks for all of your responses.  My X29 tty driver is doing much
better now, thank you ;-)

And the "crash" command that I posted 3 years ago will be reposted
Real Soon Now with enhancements for figuring some of this stuff out.
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