Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Nick Piggin]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 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.

But making up a new naming scheme which you happen to consider
more appropriate doesn't sound to me like a good solution. Not
even if you have good reasons for your likes/dislikes.

If I ported some Linux program to Windows I would not ask
the user if they wanted to save to /dev/hda5, or /mnt/c_drive
because I consider C: bad naming.

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