Re: CD writing in future Linux try #2 [ was: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) ]

["René Rebe" <rene@exactcode.de>]

Hi,

On Monday 06 February 2006 17:29, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> 
> > I just found that the followig "works" (cdrom drive not supported, but 
> > other than that seems fine) under Solaris 11 snv_30 x86, much to my 
> > surprise:
> >
> >   cdrecord -dev=/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0 -toc
> >
> > which worked just as well as
> >
> >   cdrecord -dev=1,0,0 -toc
> >
> > I would have rather expected to get
> >
> >   Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
> 
> You are the first to try this unsupported dev parameter.
> 
> Fortunately, users on Solaris usually read the man pages before
> doing wrong things and then it usually works....
> 
> Once I see to many people using this kind of CLI, I'll add a note.

If I would not be in Berlin as well I would ask what good drugs there are to
smoke - heck - wait - there *is* over average drug dealing going along here ...

You still never ever explained *why* you think specifing devices by name
is so bad ...

Have you patched your schillix mount, fsck.* and co to take a pseudo
SCSI ID as well?

Start to get that _the_ interface to devices on Unix and a-like systems
are device nodes in /dev (or simillar) - not artificially made up IDs the
user has to find out for the system (or add -scanbus (or what it was)
to any program executed).

Still if _you_ do not like that, 99.999% of the Linux users and developers
_do_. So stop whining about it.

PS: Yes, I run a bastarized version of cdrecord that has a whole bunch of
crap patched away.

Have fun,

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