Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

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>> Udev interfaces that and can be set up so that it assigns
>> /dev/cdrecorder0, 1, ... to evey recorder in the system, implementing
>> the userspace interface.
>
>Problem is, udev doesn't.  Or at least it varies from distribution to
>distribution.  For instance recent gentoo creates /dev/cdrom*,
>/dev/cdrw*, /dev/dvd*, /dev/dvdrw*.  Fedora core 3 creates
>/dev/cdrom*, /dev/cdwriter*, /dev/dvd*, /dev/dvdwriter*.  I guess from
>your email that SuSE does /dev/cdrecorder*.  And I'm not able to
>guess what fedora core 5, mandrake, debian, slackware and infinite
>number of derivatives do.

Plus you have to think about systems not using udev at all.
Cheers, chaos preprogrammed.


Jan Engelhardt
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