> > OK, just correct me if I get this wrong, but this code is taking the LAST 2 > characters of the device name and verifying that it is "cd". Which would > mean that the standard states that "/dev/ginsucd" would be a CD-ROM drive? > > That is why I feel a "name" of a device handle shouldnt set how a driver > operates in this fashion... if you make a small error in your compare, you > might try to eject a Ginsu Cabbage Dicer instead of a cdrom drive... OOPS! > > Sam Bingner > > Alan Cox writes: > > > len = readlink ("/proc/self/3", buffer, buflen); > > > if (strcmp (buffer + len - 2, "cd") != 0) { > > > fprintf (stderr, "Not a CD-ROM! Bugger off.\n"); > > > exit (1); > > > > And on my box cd is the cabbage dicer whoops > > Actually, no, because it's guaranteed that a trailing "/cd" is a > CD-ROM. That's the standard. Sure, you no longer support /dev/sdcd (eighty-second SCSI disk)... ;) Andrzej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device ... David Brownell
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device ... James Simmons
- RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Regist... Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number R... Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Numb... Richard Gooch
- RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Regist... Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS
- RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number R... Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
- Re: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number R... Tim Jansen
- RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Regist... Chemolli Francesco (USI)
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number R... Helge Hafting
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Numb... Oystein Viggen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device ... Josh Fryman
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- Re: LANANA: To Pending Dev... Miles Lane