On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Mark Santcroos wrote:

> I have an almost-ready patch that implements linux_read() syscall. This
> will check if we are reading from a raw disk and in that case it will
> enlarge the read() to the next sector boundary. I have it working in the
> kernel but I have problems returning the right read buffer to userland.

Unbreaking block devices would be a better solution.  Without buffering,
reads of raw disks using an unbuffered linux_read() might be <sector size>
times slower than they should be.

Bruce


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