Tape drive handling on FreeBSD

[Dan Langille]

On 20 Dec 2005 at 12:49, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> > The only problem I can imagine is if someone already uses O_NONBLOCK on an
> > open() call and expects it to fail if there is no tape in the drive.  This
> > seems a bit unlikely, but a bit of documentation can avoid most problems.
> 
> 
> 
> *cough*
> 
> Documentation didn't help you :-).
> 
> I'll try and do a bit of work on it over the next week or so but I can't
> test until I get home and hook up a tape drive (and find a frickin' piece of
> DTL media for it).
> 
> Poke me periodically at my private address.

I can give you access to a machine with a DLT drive attached.  It's 
running 5.4 and it's where Kern does his regression testing.

Please email me your ssh-key and if possible, the IP address[es] you 
use.
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