Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:09:58 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 11:04, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2004-08-10 at 15:33, Lee Revell wrote: > > I hate to derail a good flame-fest, but this would be extremely useful, > > for more than burning CDs. Anytime you are dealing with a SCHED_FIFO > > process a bug can lock the machine, this would be useful for hacking > > jackd for example. > > > > If someone wants to code this up I and the other people on jackit-devel > > would gladly test it. > > How much is this actually needed and how much is it just a user > debugging method problem. Having done real time stuff on VMS (save > the tears) we always had a policy that one serial console was a shell > at highest priority and nobody ever used that one top priority. > > That gave you an emergency control channel.
Yeah, I haven't yet been in a situation where I needed this, it would be useful only in theory. It sounded like someone was volunteering to code it up.
Lee
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