Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Lee Revell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >>>Interesting: You claim that the Linux platform provides ways to retrieve > >>>the needed information on FreeBSD, MS-WIN, ....? > >>> > >> > >>What do FreeBSD and MS-WIN have to do with Linux? > > > > > > What is the relevence of /dev/hd* for a device independent library like libscg? > > > > Isn't it good practice to adhere to the naming conventions > of the system to which a program is ported to? (even if 100 > of them do it one way and 1 does it another) Well, the problem is that (in special if you include the ATAPI tape drives) Linux likes to enforce inapropriate naming conventions. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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