Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2001 13:05:13 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Richard Gooch wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin writes: > > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Argh! What I wrote in text is what I meant to say. The code didn't > > > match. No wonder people seemed to be missing the point. So the line of > > > code I actually meant was: > > > if (strcmp (buffer + len - 3, "/cd") != 0) { > > > > This is still a really bad idea. You don't want to tie this kind of > > things to the name. > > Why do you think it's a bad idea? >
Because you are now, once again, tying two things that are completely and utterly unrelated: device classification and device name. It breaks every time someone comes out with a new device which is "kind of like an old device, but not really," like CD-writers (which was kind-of-like WORM, kind-of-like CD-ROM) and DVD (kind-of-like CD)...
-hpa
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