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

[Luke-Jr]

On Monday 13 February 2006 16:43, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> Well, "any user" just opens his Windows Explorer and takes a look at the
> >> icon of his drive D:\\ to see whether it's a CD-ROM or DVD. It is
> >> interesting to see professional programmers often argue that a
> >
> >This is not true: a drive letter mapping does not need to exist on MS-WIN
> >in order to be able to access it via ASPI or SPTI.
>
> I have to support this view. Linux filesystems do not show up in Windows
> Explorer (because there's obviously an fs driver lacking), but there's
> always a way to damage your Linux from within Windows.

Really? My Windows-using friend has all his Linux partitions fully visible and 
usable in Windows Explorer...
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