A Question Concerning Device Drivers

Mech. Eng. Robotics Group watmelon at watale.waterloo.edu
Thu Feb 11 03:02:54 AEST 1988


In System V, is the cpass/passc combination the only way to pass data
between a user's buffer and a character driver?
It seems to be a bit of a waste of time to copy data one character at a time
when you could probably do some kind of block copy.
Are there other ways of passing the data?



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