Re: interview question how does application connects to device

[er krishna <erkrishna@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> picture for read and write. It will try to read the data from cache (buffer
> cache) and if not avilable there then from disk...

This is applicable only for block devices, not for all devices (eg: char dev).

Yep...100% true....

-mandeep

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