RE: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Bingner Sam J. Contractor RSIS]

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.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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