Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932335AbWAZOfA (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:35:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932340AbWAZOfA (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:35:00 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:18051 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932335AbWAZOe7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:34:59 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:32:27 +0100 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Cc: rlrevell@joe-job.com, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, grundig@teleline.es, axboe@suse.de, acahalan@gmail.com Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <43D8DD7B.nailE2XL1KRWJ@burner> References: <787b0d920601241923k5cde2bfcs75b89360b8313b5b@mail.gmail.com> <20060125144543.GY4212@suse.de> <20060125153057.GG4212@suse.de> <43D7AF56.nailDFJ882IWI@burner> <20060125181847.b8ca4ceb.grundig@teleline.es> <43D8988F.nailDTH21LS0G@burner> <1138268759.3087.138.camel@mindpipe> <43D8D5A0.nailE2X71H31H@burner> <43D8D80B.9080203@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <43D8D80B.9080203@yahoo.com.au> User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1271 Lines: 35 Nick Piggin wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > >>>Interesting: You claim that the Linux platform provides ways to retrieve > >>>the needed information on FreeBSD, MS-WIN, ....? > >>> > >> > >>What do FreeBSD and MS-WIN have to do with Linux? > > > > > > What is the relevence of /dev/hd* for a device independent library like libscg? > > > > Isn't it good practice to adhere to the naming conventions > of the system to which a program is ported to? (even if 100 > of them do it one way and 1 does it another) Well, the problem is that (in special if you include the ATAPI tape drives) Linux likes to enforce inapropriate naming conventions. J?rg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/