Re: loopback on block device

[Helge Hafting]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:42:48PM -0500, Lei Yang wrote:
> Why /dev/ram0 is a file? Can you get into more details? For example, if 
> I want to do some system level programming and write to a /dev/ram0, how 
> do I do it?
> 

I don't think you need an example.  You can open it in exactly
the same way as you open regular files like /etc/resolv.conf.

ie.
FILE *f = fopen("/dev/ram0", "rw");
Then use fseek, fwrite and fread as usual.

Helge Hafting
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