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

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

>
>> I am not sure if I understood your other mail on the cdrecord ML, but if 
>> the proper syntax would be
>>   cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc:@
>> then
>>   /dev/hdc
>> could just be transparently turned into
>>   /dev/hdc:@
>> somewhere within the getopt part.
>
>See complete description, the :@ is not just for fun....
>

       "If  the name of the device node that has been speci■
       fied on such a system refers to exactly one SCSI device, a shorthand in
       the form dev= devicename:@ or dev= devicename:@,lun may be used instead
       of dev= devicename:scsibus,target,lun."

So @ is equal to 0,0,0 or 0,0?


Threads indicated that every device under linux is "exactly one SCSI device",
which is why I was asking for this behind-the-scenes translation of /dev/hdc
into /dev/hdc:@.

>> for other OS:
>>   cdrecord -dev=/dev/acd0 on FreeBSD
>
>Will not work
>
I think mount uses this syntax (`mount /dev/acd0 /mnt`).



Jan Engelhardt
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