Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:10:12 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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>> > Well, this is a deficit of the Linux kernel - not libscg. >> >> This is exactly what I have written -- extra effort is needed to get >> a stable numbering (which Solaris does), but you can use a very similar >> extra care to get stable names (which Linux with udev does). > >As this conceptional deficite in Linux causes Linux to break POSIX >compliance e.g. for stat(2) with hot plugged devices, people with
The struct stat->st_rdev field need to be stable too to comply to POSIX?
>sufficient background knowledge should know that Linux tried to fix a >low level bug at a high level ignoring that the mid-level is still broken.
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