s...@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Bellovin) writes: >The point is that when dealing with raw devices, you take what the hardware >gives you. 6th Edition could have detected this and copied the user data >into a properly-aligned buffer, with the corresponding performance hit. >Instead, it said "this is the way the hardware works; adapt".
I bet at that time block devices were still usuable...
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