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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:29:12 EST, Bruno Diniz de Paula <diniz@cs.rutgers.edu>  said:

> the kernel. One option would be create a raw device on top of my disk
> partition, but in this case I would have to learn how to map a logical
> file name (/var/tmp/myfile) to a set of block disks. Is there any other

What's wrong with this?

     fd = open("/dev/hda7", your_flags_here);

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