Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 16:28:26 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Alan Cox writes: > > > > if (strcmp (buffer + len - 2, "cd") != 0) { > > > > fprintf (stderr, "Not a CD-ROM! Bugger off.\n"); > > > > exit (1); > > > > > > And on my box cd is the cabbage dicer whoops > > > > Actually, no, because it's guaranteed that a trailing "/cd" is a > > CD-ROM. That's the standard. > > And its back to /dev/disc versus /dev/disk. Dont muddle user picked > file names with kernel namespace bindings please.
Even if we have per-device filesystems, we are going to have the same issue, in one form or another. If we have a "/devicetype" trailing component added on, then somewhere it has to report "CD-ROM" or "cd" or "Compact Disc".
Regards,
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