Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:22:42 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> >> > 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?
Correct.
Jörg
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