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

[Joerg Schilling]

Florin Malita <fmalita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> >>Could you explain why stat->st_dev / stat->st_ino POSIX semantics forces
> >>POSIX implementations to have a stable stat->st_rdev number? 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I was never talking about stat->st_rdev 
> >  
> >
> This is blatantly incorrect. You *were* talking about stat->st_rdev:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/10/143
>
> On 2/10/06, *Joerg Schilling* <schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     > The struct stat->st_rdev field need to be stable too to comply to
>     POSIX?
>
>     Correct.
>
>     Jörg
>
>
> You may claim you *never meant to* or you *never realized* you were
> talking about, but you can't say you never talked about it - that's an
> outright lie.

You are lying here.

I did not write st_rdev and from my previous mail it was obvioys that 
I was referring to st_dev.



Jörg

-- 
 EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
       js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                (uni)  
       schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx     (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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/