boot0cfg -s vs. GEOM_PART_*?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <B0DD65C3-4792-47C4-9BBE-E33BD58EA537 at mac.com>, Marcel Moolenaar wri
tes:

>I'll consider this.
>
> From my perspective:
>
>o   The fact that we have a separate OAM interface that
>     doesn't use file descriptors (at the application
>     level), having to use ioctl(2) all of a sudden is...
>     well... odd. Likewise for regular read/write. Just
>     for boot code do we need o worry about mapping GEOM
>     names to device special files.

You can use g_ctl instead of ioctl if you want, it just
does not belong in the xml.

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