The following reply was made to PR misc/19603; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/19603
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:01:36 +0100

 Maybe the word "slow" could be explained in the man page?
 
 A
 .Sq slow
 device is one that might block for an arbitrary amount of time.
 
 Roland