Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2001 12:36:11 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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Richard Gooch wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Alan Cox writes: > > > > > len = readlink ("/proc/self/3", buffer, buflen); > > > > > 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. > > > > Then check for `/cd' at the end instead of `cd' :-) > > 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.
-hpa
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