Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751711AbWBMKRE (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:17:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751713AbWBMKRE (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:17:04 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:399 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751711AbWBMKRC (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:17:02 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:14:35 +0100 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de Cc: peter.read@gmail.com, mj@ucw.cz, 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: <43F05C0B.nailKUS2493B9@burner> References: <20060208165330.GB17534@voodoo> <43EB0DEB.nail52A1LVGUO@burner> <43EB7210.nailIDH2JUBZE@burner> <43EB7BBA.nailIFG412CGY@burner> <43EC71FB.nailISD31LRCB@burner> <20060210114721.GB20093@merlin.emma.line.org> <43EC887B.nailISDGC9CP5@burner> <43EC8E18.nailISDJTQDBG@burner> <43EC93A2.nailJEB1AMIE6@burner> In-Reply-To: <43EC93A2.nailJEB1AMIE6@burner> 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: 1312 Lines: 33 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >> > Well, this is a deficit of the Linux kernel - not libscg. > > >> > > >> This is exactly what I have written -- extra effort is needed to get > > >> a stable numbering (which Solaris does), but you can use a very similar > > >> extra care to get stable names (which Linux with udev does). > > > > > >As this conceptional deficite in Linux causes Linux to break POSIX > > >compliance e.g. for stat(2) with hot plugged devices, people with > > > > The struct stat->st_rdev field need to be stable too to comply to POSIX? > > Correct. Mmmm, it looks like I did oversee that you did change the subject..... I did say that stat->st_dev needs to be stable 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/