Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:32:29 +0100 |
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On Friday 10 February 2006 12:02, you wrote: > Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > > > > Right. The question was rather like this: > > Say we have our non-stable /dev/sr0 mapping to /dev/sg0, and it has got BTL > > 1,1,0. Now, if the user starts `cdrecord -dev=1,1,0`, > > `ls -l /proc/$(pidof -s cdrecord)/fd/` should show (and in fact did when I > > used ide-scsi back then) /dev/sg0, right? > > > > If so, what's wrong with just opening /dev/sg0 directly (as per user > > request, i.e. cdrecord -dev=/dev/sg0) and sending the scsi commands down > > the fd? > > As I did write _many_ times, this was done by the program "cdwrite" on Linux > in 1995 and as cdwrite did not check whether if actually got a CD writer, > cdwrite did destroy many hard disk drives just _because_ the /dev/sg* > is non-stable. > > People did not believe this and did write shell scripts with e.g. /dev/sg0 > inside and later suffered from the non-stable /dev/sg* <-> device relation.
I am sure they used udev, back in 1995...
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