From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266687AbUHIOzE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:55:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266684AbUHIOy3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:54:29 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:48592 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266768AbUHIOv1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:51:27 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: David Woodhouse To: Joerg Schilling Cc: James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, axboe@suse.de, eric@lammerts.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200408091440.i79EeqrH010640@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <200408091440.i79EeqrH010640@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1092063079.4383.5227.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.dwmw2.1) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 15:51:19 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:40 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >From: David Woodhouse > > >On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:12 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> If you are right, why then is SuSE removing the warnings in cdrecord > >> that are there to tell the user that cdrecord is running with insufficient > >> privilleges? > > >Because those warnings are bogus, put there by someone who likes to > >complain about things that are not _really_ a problem? > > Try to inform yourself before sending wrong mails..... Jrg, you are making a fool of yourself. > People who use the official cdrecord know that they need to run cdrecord > with root privilleges. People who run the bastardized version from SuSE > don't know this and fail to write CDs. Actually I run the bastardised version from another distro -- also as myself rather than as root. With BurnFree enabled to ensure that buffer underruns don't cause problems (not that they happen _anyway_), I see no failures due to not running as root. -- dwmw2