Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

> 
> 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