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SubjectRe: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
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Joerg Schilling wrote:
> - how to use /dev/hd* in order to scan an image from a scanner
> - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a printer
> - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a jukebox
> - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a graphical device

Does cdrecord scan images, print files, or talk to SCSI graphical
devices? No! Why do you care? And furthermore, why the hell would
you try to talk to one of those things via /dev/hd* anyways? They
certainly aren't ATA devices (aside from maybe a couple proprietary
ATA jukeboxes, but those are likely SCSI anyways).

> - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a CPU device

Does cdrecord talk to CPU devices? No! Why do you care? BTW: What
the hell is a "CPU device" and why the hell would you think you could
talk to it through a disk interface, let alone some other random SCSI
interface?

> - how to use /dev/hd* in order to talk to a tape device

Does cdrecord write to ATAPI tapes? Not usually. Why do you care?
It's a possible bug in that /dev/hd* doesn't support ATAPI tapes, but
nobody uses those anymore anyways (if it matters feel free to submit
a bug report and patch).

By the way, are you ever actually going to try to point out any
_actual_ problems?

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

--
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the
other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
-- C.A.R. Hoare


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