"Thomas Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling: > > Alan Cox [...] with his answers to Mr. Bloch, he was correct, > > but I did not see him writing this claim. > > That's what i understand from this statement by Alan Cox > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/31/175
OK, it seems that I forgot about the less important parts. > I interpret this like: > "Kids, manage this yourself, like the Terminalovski > brothers from the neighbor house did." > > Well, Dialup Terminalovski is an ageing web criminal now. > Uucp Terminalovksi lost his job to the Internet. > Kermit Terminalovski went back to showbiz. > > Do they really want us to end up like that ?! Well, this kind of rant verifies that he has no clue. The tty dial in/out problem is unrelated to the SCSI / removable media problem. The tty problem has been solved more than 25 years ago. There are two devices /dev/ttya & /dev/cua0 The dialout device cua0 is blocked as long as a dial in is active and the dial in device is blocked as long as a dial out is active. This is a simple task compared to what cdrecord does on UNIX. There are only two programs with completely different tasks for ttys. There are many different taks related to CD/DVD sersives. > Joerg Schilling: > > If he did really write that it is a Linux userland only problem, > > he is of course wrong. > > This becomes evident by my failure to coordinate > cdrskin and libblkid. Ted T'so is my witness that i > did consider any known locking mechanism and that > each of them failed to match our needs. > Those needs are not exotic. Forget usual locking mechanisms, they will all not work. > I'm open to proposals. (Expect some counter arguments > from my side but be assured that i hope to lose in > my role as advocatus diavoli.) You cannot find a solution for Linux as long as the related people are unwilling acept a solution. As long as Linux implements 3 or more unrelated and unsynchronized paths to the same hardware it is impossible to even add the basic support that works on Solaris sine a long time. There are issues that are even not solved on Solaris but you cannot solve them on Linux if the basics are impossible. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]