Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[H. Peter Anvin]

Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> Geert Uytterhoeven writes:
> > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Then  check for `/cd' at the end instead of `cd' :-)
> 
> Argh! What I wrote in text is what I meant to say. The code didn't
> match. No wonder people seemed to be missing the point. So the line of
> code I actually meant was:
>         if (strcmp (buffer + len - 3, "/cd") != 0) {
> 

This is still a really bad idea.  You don't want to tie this kind of
things to the name.

	-hpa

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