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

From: Joerg Schilling
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 11:35:27 EST


Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> >On Solaris, adding a new controler always asigns this new controler a new
> >higher ID (except for the case when the sysadmin explicitly requests different
> >behavior).
>
> What if the OS runs out of next-higher IDs?

????

Do you believe that an int32_t is not sufficient?

Jörg

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