Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 15 May 2001 23:14:07 +0100 (BST)


> > > if (strcmp (buffer + len - 2, "cd") != 0) {
> > > fprintf (stderr, "Not a CD-ROM! Bugger off.\n");
> > > exit (1);
> >
> > And on my box cd is the cabbage dicer whoops
>
> Actually, no, because it's guaranteed that a trailing "/cd" is a
> CD-ROM. That's the standard.

And its back to /dev/disc versus /dev/disk. Dont muddle user picked file
names with kernel namespace bindings please.

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