At 22:18 25-09-02, Nix, Robert P. wrote:

>Am I understanding correctly that you could not define a new single address, build 
>the dasd there, set it off, detach it and attach another new device at the same 
>address, and then set the address back on?

That way it works. One point is you have to re-use the same virtual
address each time. This is harder to program if you have multiple
processes running that use the feature and try to find out what
minor number was assigned.

And yes, this is a cool way to access the filesystem of a dead
penguin to repair something (we even run rpm with --root to it)

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