bread(3) on FreeBSD
The text aefd64ded237, as FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE shipped it.
read and write blocks of a UFS file system