Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:38:37 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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>> Udev interfaces that and can be set up so that it assigns >> /dev/cdrecorder0, 1, ... to evey recorder in the system, implementing >> the userspace interface. > >Problem is, udev doesn't. Or at least it varies from distribution to >distribution. For instance recent gentoo creates /dev/cdrom*, >/dev/cdrw*, /dev/dvd*, /dev/dvdrw*. Fedora core 3 creates >/dev/cdrom*, /dev/cdwriter*, /dev/dvd*, /dev/dvdwriter*. I guess from >your email that SuSE does /dev/cdrecorder*. And I'm not able to >guess what fedora core 5, mandrake, debian, slackware and infinite >number of derivatives do.
Plus you have to think about systems not using udev at all. Cheers, chaos preprogrammed.
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