On Sat 21 August 2004 21:17, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 17:19, Lourens Veen wrote: > > On Sat 21 August 2004 18:06, Albert Cahalan wrote: > That makes "dd if=/dev/FancyName" work, and in fact > is exactly what the Linux "udev" program sets up. > The udev programs discovers devices by looking in > the /sys filesystem when the system boots or when > a hot-plug event happens. Then udev looks at the > device (model, size, serialnum, and much more) to > match it with a device that I've defined. > > It won't make "dd if=FancyName" work unless I put a > symlink in every damn directory. I really don't mind > having to use "/dev/", but I'd hate to have some > programs needing it (basically everything) and some > other programs (cdrecord at least) being different. > It's nice to have a consistant user interface.
Well, on Linux 2.6 you can use ATA:/dev/hdx IIRC. > The nice thing about using device files or drive letters > is that nobody has to change all the other programs > to match. Only cdrecord would need to change, and the > changes are pretty easy. But it would make cdrecord itself inconsistent across platforms. It just depends on how you look at it. Lourens -- GPG public key: http://home.student.utwente.nl/l.e.veen/lourens.key
