Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:31:48 +0100 | | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> wrote:
> We Linux users will forever patch your software to work the
Looks like you are not a native English speaker. "We" is incorrect here, as you only speak for yourself.
> BTW, before Joerg mentions portability, I'd like to remind > everyone that all modern OSes support the use of normal device > names for SCSI. The most awkward is FreeBSD, where you have > to do a syscall or two to translate the name to Joerg's very > non-hotplug non-iSCSI way of thinking. Windows, MacOS X, and > even Solaris all manage to handle device names just fine. In > numerous cases, not just Linux, cdrecord is inventing crap out > of thin air to satisfy a pre-hotplug worldview.
Looks like you are badly informed, so I encourage you to get yourself informed properly before sending your next postig.... libscg includes 22 different SCSI low level transport implementations.
- Only 5 of them allow a /dev/hd* device name related access.
- 11 of them use file descriptors as handles for sending SCSI commands but do not have a name <-> fs relation and thus _need_ a SCSI device naming scheme as libscg offers. This is because there is no 1:1 relation between SCSI addressing and a fd retrieved from a /dev/* entry. - 6 of them not even allow to get a file descriptors as handles for sending SCSI commands. These platforms of course need the SCSI device naming scheme as libscg offers.
Conclusion:
17 Platforms _need_ the addressing scheme libscg offers
5 Platforms _may_ use a different access method too.
NOTE: Amongst the 6 plaforms that do not allow to even get a file descriptor there is a modern OS like MacOS X
BTW: the wording of your posting did give you a negative score. If you continue the same way, it may be that your next posting will remain unanswered even though it may be wring and needs a correction like this one.
Jörg
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