Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Wed, 16 May 2001 14:01:08 -0600


H. Peter Anvin writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> > 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.

Why do you think it's a bad idea?

Regards,

Richard....
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