Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030424AbWBIK3Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:29:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030541AbWBIK3Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:29:25 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:26840 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030424AbWBIK3Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:29:24 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:27:30 +0100 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, lkml@dervishd.net Cc: peter.read@gmail.com, matthias.andree@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jim@why.dont.jablowme.net Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) Message-ID: <43EB1912.nail7EL11L90P@burner> References: <200602021717.08100.luke@dashjr.org> <200602031724.55729.luke@dashjr.org> <43E7545E.nail7GN11WAQ9@burner> <73d8d0290602060706o75f04c1cx@mail.gmail.com> <43E7680E.2000506@gmx.de> <20060206205437.GA12270@voodoo> <43E89B56.nailA792EWNLG@burner> <20060207183712.GC5341@voodoo> <43E9F1CD.nail2BR11FL52@burner> <20060208210219.GB9166@DervishD> In-Reply-To: <20060208210219.GB9166@DervishD> 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: 1180 Lines: 28 DervishD wrote: > other half doesn't have it probably has a bad user interface. You > know that if a program uses a naming convention different from ALL > the rest of programs is because the program has a problem. You know > that if the only UNIX program out there that doesn't use /dev entries > to talk to devices is cdrecord, the problem *probably* is in > cdrecord, and not in UNIX... So why do you like to introduce a different naming scheme? Look into the real world and you will find that most SCSI related programs use a namischscheme that is either identical to what cdrecord does or a very similar one. 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/