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

[Bill Davidsen]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Well, you need to implement 30 (or so) platform-specific ways to get a
> > list of devices, and portable applications aren't going to do that. To
> > make it explicit: no way. It is a maintenance nightmare, 30 lowly-tested
> > pieces of code, too.
>
>
> It already works in libscg since nearly 10 years.
>
>
> > This sounds like a huge difference, but I don't believe it actually is.
> > Jörg is trying to fight the system rather than stop complaining to users
> > about their using /dev/hd*. The scanning code is there and can be made
> > working with little effort probably.
>
>
> Talking about /dev/hd* ignore the basic problem. Show me a way how to
> send SCSI commands to a ATAPI tape drive on Linux. 
>
> Please do not forget that libscg is OS _and_ device independent.
> Implementing /dev/hd* support at all is already a concession that did go to far.

You added the feature, and a message that it was accidental and 
unsupported. In truth is was neither, and your little message pisses off 
developers and scares casual users.

--
   -bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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