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    SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
    >>>>
    >>> But you need to open the correct /dev/sg[0-9] too, don't you?
    >>> (otherwise cdrecord would set the jukebox on fire)
    >>
    >> This is why the mapping engine is in the Linux adoption part of
    >> libscg. It maps the non-stable device <-> /dev/sg* relation to a
    >> stable b,t,l address.
    >
    >Well, the b,t,l mapping, judging from libscg code, is as stable as the
    >ordering of the device nodes themselves, so it is not clear what the
    >advantage would be other than getting a uniform and artificial b,t,l mapping.
    >
    >If hotplugging shuffles /dev/sg* between running $APPLICATION -scanbus and
    >$APPLICATION -dowhatever, the b,t,l will change as well.
    >

    Don't interrupt my (trick) thread (as explained before in private).
    Thank you.



    Jan Engelhardt
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