Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:56:29 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
> Well, you need to implement 30 (or so) platform-specific ways to get a > list of devices, and portable applications aren't going to do that. To > make it explicit: no way. It is a maintenance nightmare, 30 lowly-tested > pieces of code, too.
It already works in libscg since nearly 10 years.
> This sounds like a huge difference, but I don't believe it actually is. > Jörg is trying to fight the system rather than stop complaining to users > about their using /dev/hd*. The scanning code is there and can be made > working with little effort probably.
Talking about /dev/hd* ignore the basic problem. Show me a way how to send SCSI commands to a ATAPI tape drive on Linux.
Please do not forget that libscg is OS _and_ device independent. Implementing /dev/hd* support at all is already a concession that did go to far.
Jörg
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