Subject: Re: Various NetBSD kernel questions to help with port of FreeBSD "zaptel" drivers.
To: Jeff Rizzo <riz@redcrowgroup.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/08/2004 14:41:38
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On Nov 8, 2004, at 2:24 PM, Jeff Rizzo wrote:

> Perfect!  This is _exactly_ what I was looking for... there's a lot of 
> similarities with what the FreeBSD code is doing.  One thing I'm 
> curious about, because both drivers do this:  why does the open 
> function return ENXIO?

That's Special Magick that other parts of the kernel interpret as 
"create a clone".

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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