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

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Mon Feb 13 2006 - 11:37:20 EST


>> 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.
>>
>> JÃrg
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
Exactly. But I asked specifically about Rdev... see "stable too"
(=German: "Muss st_rdev auch stabil sein?")



Jan Engelhardt
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