Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Richard Gooch]

Geert Uytterhoeven writes:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Alan Cox writes:
> > > > 	len = readlink ("/proc/self/3", buffer, buflen);
> > > > 	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.
> 
> Then  check for `/cd' at the end instead of `cd' :-)

Argh! What I wrote in text is what I meant to say. The code didn't
match. No wonder people seemed to be missing the point. So the line of
code I actually meant was:
	if (strcmp (buffer + len - 3, "/cd") != 0) {

				Regards,

					Richard....
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