Messages in this thread | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:07:16 +0100 | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:45:32AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > If you did try to understand the reason why I did introduce the POSIX > > claim, you would know that if Linux did try to follow the POSIX rule, > > a side effect would be that removable devices need to have a stable > > mapping in the kernel > > It is _not_ a POSIX rule, as I and others have shown. You claimed it > was required by POSIX, but you are quite clearly incorrect. It has > never worked that way with Unix systems, and POSIX was always designed > to codify existing practice. On Unix systems fixed disks would and > did have their devices numbering schemes move around under a number of > conditions.
If you believe this, pleace give evidence.
I was quoting POSIX documents which prove my claims...... Jörg
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